Today, we at Documentopia launched a brand new website for Jamboo Creations who are in turn launching their new product, the Hearthsoft™, into the market.

The HearthSoft™ is a made-to-measure, custom-designed cushion that safely covers the top and sides of your fireplace hearth, protecting your child with a soft cushion, while adding an attractive and comfortable seating area for you, your family and friends.

Documentopia created a website design and logo that harmonizes the same design appeal of the Hearthsoft™ product –playfulness coupled with elegance. The site has a customize function on the buy now page where the user can select from the available material swatches and see a final version of the product. The buy now pages also ties into a custom e-commerce cart, designed to allow for future child-safe furnishings.

Documentopia works with clients to suit their budget but also provides a complete solution to meet their requirements. We develop our sites to make future additions easy.

Check out the Jamboo website.

Earlier this week, we launched the new Engineered Solutions (ESL) website. ESL is an Atlanta-based engineering and consulting company that specializes in construction forensics and water system engineering.

ESL had a functional information site but was concerned with how to direct their clients to the appropriate service. Documentopia worked with the ESL team to create numerous strategies that enabled the varying client types they serve to get the right information fast. This involved some custom illustrations showing the different physical characteristics of a problem a customer could face that then links to the service provided. We also created a “what do you do” page for potential customers to find the best way they can be helped by ESL by looking at their own needs.

Check out the Engineered Solutions website.

This weekend we launched the new Arbor Obgyn website for an Atlanta-based doctor.

Arbor wanted a look and feel that was welcoming to young women and tied in with the arbor theme.  We provided them with logo and web design.

Check out the new Arbor Obgyn website.

Today Documentopia launched a pretty neat little site for Beauty Scapes of Georgia, who provide landscape services in the Metro Atlanta area.

The site includes customized drop down menus and a rotating image file in the header. We also themed a blog site for the owner to provide his clients with useful gardening tips and links to his social networking locations (facebook, twitter and linked in). On this project we worked with Full Plate PR who provided copy for the website and helped Beauty Scapes to develop a company marketing strategy as their company grows.

Check out the new Beauty Scapes website here.

Documentopia is pleased that we are now an authorized seller for Mailstore. Our experience with this product has been great. It is absolutely what most small businesses need to tackle the tangle of email that so many have.

It solves so many problems: “searchability”, Retention, Backups, Knowledge capture of former employees – the list goes on and on.

PST folders are not a reliable solution – this is.

Today Documentopia launched a new custom solution developed for Snap Prepaid of Georgia.

This website allows new merchants to apply online for an account. Once activated, they can access phones available to them and make orders.

While the interface is clean and easy to use for a merchant, it also as simple and straight forward for the administration team at Snap Prepaid. When news orders come in the warehouse as well as billing department receive notifications of the order specifics. The warehouse can update inventory availability on the website while the accounts department can track the order at any stage from order to shipment processing.

Good Luck to Snap Prepaid with their new endeavor!

This month, we launched our first website under our recently launched start-up company deal for Lenora Mcfarland, who has just started her own new company.

To assist her as she is progressing with her client portfolio and services, we designed a clean looking unique website, logo, as well as business cards and start-up documentation, including envelope templates, letterhead templates, and an announcement card.

Check out her new website and services: Lenora’s Site

Good Luck to our newest client!

Why is Documentopia in the hosting business?  Clearly not to make money.

Documentopia provides hosting to save both the client and us time and money.   Hosts are not all created alike.  They range the gambit from great to very bad.

Old versions of PHP are a primary problem, but another problem is hosts that themselves outsource their database servers.   Often you will find there is a slow or flakey link to those servers.  Often they are not even located in the same Datacenter.

A Robust Database Connection is vital to today’s web applications.

Other benefits of providing your own hosting platform is a uniform development and production environment.  The Documentopia (DT) hosting server is a mirror image of the DT development server so you do not have to revalidate an application constantly.

The final benefit is continuous error monitoring.   We have created a system that monitors all our websites for errors and reports back to us on a regular basis.

All this save us and you time and money.

I have 16 years in the UNIX business and I know UNIX hosting.

In our current economic times, we are actually speaking to and hearing about more people setting up their own companies.  While unemployment is high, people are offering their unique service capabilities to clients on as-needed bases instead of trying to get hired by one company in a full time position.

As a response to this, and in addition to our recently announced start-up company set-up package we have created a resource guide for those of you contemplating starting up a new business.

This resource guide includes the information we found hardest to get a grasp on when we first began Documentopia – what you actually need to do legally.  We have provided links to online sites to help you reserve your company name, set up your legal entity, and get a business tax ID.

In addition, we have included information, provided by our in-house IT guru, on how to decide your approach on technology needs.

We have also included financial information details as well as marketing set up ideas.

If you have any questions or would like to add information you feel we may have missed, please contact us so we can keep this page a useful guide to all who visit!

Since I have a little extra time on my hands I went ahead and updated this library from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 and got DBForge working.

My hope here is to use this on smaller projects that don’t require a frame-work – like one project I did for a local Insurance Broker.

The idea here is I can use basic Models that are transferable to CodeIgniter with minimal modification.

This should give a nice migration from no frame to CodeIgniter.   Sometimes a client has what starts out as a simple project but grows into something that would better be done in a frame work.  This way migration is easier because you already have your models setup.   This is the theory anyway.

Download Page or a Direct Link to the Download

I have updated  for my own purposes the ActiveRecord library from CI 1.7.0 so you can use it in a standalone mode

The original version was downloaded from http://hasin.wordpress.com/

You can download it at http://www.documentopia.com/downloads/

I had to remove a few things so test it out before you use it, my testing only extended to selects, inserts and truncating tables.   It really needs some error handling added in if you are doing anything but dead simple queries.