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WordPress on Windows?

Jan 2016

We got an interesting call today from local charity Hives Save Lives, based near Verwood. The charity works with farmers in Uganda, bringing in equipment and training in honey production and helping to provide sustainable management and income generation. They told us their brand new, fully responsive WordPress site was all ready to go live.

The only problem with the site was … the project had dragged on and their original WordPress developer could no longer be located. We get more than a few calls like this. Now, it’s not a particularly difficult task to move a WordPress site from a development server to the live site, tweak the options to fix URLs and run a script to rename the paths of all the images. Job done, and in less than half an hour.

There was only one slightly tricky feature of the project. The old Hives Save Lives site was classic ASP and the hosting was Windows/IIS. Not everyone realises that WordPress will run quite happily on IIS. But we love Windows hosting as well as WordPress and we were quickly able to sort out a few redirects using ISAPI so visitors linking to the old ASP pages will get smoothly redirected to the new homepage.

“On The Fence”

Jan 2016

Cheered up this gloomy morning by running into one of our customers from a while back. The St James Cottage Nursery staff were putting up their new banner. The banner artwork is actually taken from the website, stationery and graphics we created for them a few years ago.

The “Cottage” was established over 40 years ago. They are situated in the grounds of St James’ First School, overlooking open fields, in the quiet village of Gaunts Common 3 miles from Wimborne.

The yellow house was always part of their logo but we created the Dorset countryside scenery, colour scheme and typography. The font is Englebert.

As you can see from the photo it was a grey old January morning but we still think our artwork adds a dash of colour to the day.