The Web Designer for Turner New Products Group hired Poles Apart to develop a corporate blog for employees to post articles and comments. Using WordPress, Poles Apart developed the Turner blog.

• Platform: WordPress
• Project: Development only
• Tools: CSS, HTML, PHP, Photoshop
• Status: Not Live; Internal corporate blog

• Oakland
• Alameda County
• East Bay
• North and South Bay
• Silicon Valley
• San Francisco Bay Area
• California
• United States
• and beyond….

Poles Apart Design provides blog design, consultation and development services for entrepreneurs organizations and small businesses in Oakland, Alameda County and the San Francisco Bay Area. Of course, if you happen to live outside the San Francisco Bay Area, PAD won’t turn you away. In fact PAD would love to hear from you! Please feel free to contact Poles Apart Design wherever you are in the world.

Web Hosting goes green! At Poles Apart Design, not only do we believe in making the web a more beautiful, purposeful and user-friendly space to do business, share information, express opinions and display talents, we believe in making the world the same way. Introducing our new affiliate, ThinkHost, a web hosting company whose servers are powered by 100% renewable energy using the wind and the sun. ThinkHost also plants a tree for each new client. Not to mention, they have great web hosting deals which unlimited domains and databases with even the most basic package and tons of disk space and bandwidth.

Your basic ThinkHost web hosting account comes with the following:

• 100 gigabytes server space!
• 1000 gigabytes bandwidth!
• Quick WordPress Installation
• Unlimited MySQL databases included!
• Host unlimited domains/sites!
• FTP access
• Microsoft FrontPage extensions
• Unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts
• Webmail interface with IMAP support
• Unlimited autoresponders
• Unlimited email forwarders
• Free dedicated IP with SSL support*
• Raw logs and detailed traffic reports
• Full .htaccess capabilities
• 28 day money back guarantee!

• Support, security & reliability:
  • Dedicated, caring support team
  • Comprehensive knowledge base
  • PCI compliant servers
  • Multi-stage backups & generator
  • 24/7 WatchMouse server monitoring
• Green features
  • Powered by wind & solar energy!
  • A tree planted on your behalf!
• …and more.

Web Hosting goes green! At Poles Apart Design, not only do we believe in making the web a more beautiful, purposeful and user-friendly space to do business, share information, express opinions and display talents, we believe in making the world the same way. Introducing our new affiliate, ThinkHost, a web hosting company whose servers are powered by 100% renewable energy using the wind and the sun. ThinkHost also plants a tree for each new client. Not to mention, they have great web hosting deals which unlimited domains and databases with even the most basic package and tons of disk space and bandwidth.

Your basic ThinkHost web hosting account comes with the following:

• 100 gigabytes server space!
• 1000 gigabytes bandwidth!
• Quick WordPress Installation
• Unlimited MySQL databases included!
• Host unlimited domains/sites!
• FTP access
• Microsoft FrontPage extensions
• Unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts
• Webmail interface with IMAP support
• Unlimited autoresponders
• Unlimited email forwarders
• Free dedicated IP with SSL support*
• Raw logs and detailed traffic reports
• Full .htaccess capabilities
• 28 day money back guarantee!

• Support, security & reliability:
  • Dedicated, caring support team
  • Comprehensive knowledge base
  • PCI compliant servers
  • Multi-stage backups & generator
  • 24/7 WatchMouse server monitoring
• Green features
  • Powered by wind & solar energy!
  • A tree planted on your behalf!
• …and more.

Lunarpages is a fantastic web hosting service that Poles Apart Design has personal experience using. Lunarpages provides excellent customer service and provides an excessive amount of storage space and bandwidth even with the basic service now at $6.95/month. Lunarpages also loves WordPress as much as we do and provides simple installation of the WordPress blog publishing platform. When you sign up with Lunarpages, you also get a ton of free tools and website enhancements like forms, discussion boards, email forwarding, unlimited databases and much more via your Cpanel (administration area). A bonus, Lunarpages will also help you transfer your old website from your previous host, for FREE.

No other web host offers so much for a low cost ($6.95/month for basic). Your basic Lunarpages web hosting comes with the following:

• 1 FREE Domain Name for Life
• Quick Install WordPress
  
• 1,500 Gigs Storage!
• 15,000 Gigs Data Transfer!
• 24/7 Award Winning Support!
• FREE transfer of your existing website
• Unlimited Databases
• Unlimited Email/FTP Accounts
• Blog, Forum & Photo Gallery
• Fantastico (Over 35 Scripts)
• JSP/ASP Available
• Spam Protection- IMAP Support
• Microsoft® Frontpage® Compatible
• Dreamweaver Compatible
• Includes 10 FREE Add-on Domains
• Ruby on Rails 6, PostGReSQL
• MySQL 4+, PHP 4+
• MySQL 5 & PHP 5.2+ Available!
• Webmail (Horde and Squirrel)
• ….and more

Host Gator provides Premium WordPress Blog Hosting, simple WordPress installation, a great Cpanel (administration area) with lots of simple to install extras like forms, wikis, email forwarding, databases and so forth. You can host unlimited blogs and websites. Host Gator provides a lot of disk space and bandwidth. Poles Apart Design uses Host Gator to host both this site and PAD’s blog, The WordPress PAD. Host Gator’s customer service is also excellent! In addition, Host Gator is well known for their excellent reseller hosting program.

With a basic Host Gator web hosting account you get the following:

• 600 Gigs of Web Hosting Space
• 6,000 Gigabytes of Bandwidth
• Host UNLIMITED Websites
• FREE Instant Setup
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• 45 Day Money Back Guarantee
• cPanel Hosting
• One Click Install for Over 52 Scripts
• 24/7/365 Upgraded Support
• No Contracts or Hidden Fees
• …and more

Host Gator provides Premium WordPress Blog Hosting, simple WordPress installation, a great Cpanel (administration area) with lots of simple to install extras like forms, wikis, email forwarding, databases and so forth. You can host unlimited blogs and websites. Host Gator provides a lot of disk space and bandwidth. Poles Apart Design uses Host Gator to host both this site and PAD’s blog, The WordPress PAD. Host Gator’s customer service is also excellent! In addition, Host Gator is well known for their excellent reseller hosting program.

With a basic Host Gator web hosting account you get the following:

• 600 Gigs of Web Hosting Space
• 6,000 Gigabytes of Bandwidth
• Host UNLIMITED Websites
• FREE Instant Setup
• 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
• 45 Day Money Back Guarantee
• cPanel Hosting
• One Click Install for Over 52 Scripts
• 24/7/365 Upgraded Support
• No Contracts or Hidden Fees
• …and more

In addition to our standard excellent and unique blog design package, PAD offers advanced customized services to enhance your blog design and increase your online presence in the blogosphere. PAD can enhance your blog design with more sociability, users set-up, custom login screen and more.

Perhaps you want to add a subscribe by email option for your readers? Add a calendar? A forum? Polls? A directory? Add your posts automatically to Twitter or Facebook? Customize your blog for iPhones or other mobile devices? Recent comments to your sidebar? Rotating Google and other banner ads? and so on…

Contact Poles Apart today to get your custom and unique blog design today.

All of the unique and professional blog designs include custom styling, layout and smart information architecture, sociability (we discuss your needs to determine how social/interactive you want your blog to be: social bookmarking, commenting, tagging, rss and other subscriptions, etc.), and blog set-up (basic WordPress installation where applicable). In addition, your blog design comes with the following:

• Standard blog pages: home, page template, category template, archives page, single post template, 404 error page and search results page
• FREE initial consultation.
• Basic search engine optimization (SEO) (image alt tags, page titles and anchor link titles and a plugin you can use to set each page and post title and meta tags)
• Anti-Spam and Database Backup plugins to protect your blog
• Social bookmarking plugin and RSS feed subscription link to encourage your visitors to subscribe to your blog and spread the word
• A basic tutorial on how to update and add to your WordPress blog once your blog is designed and developed

Contact Poles Apart today to get your unique blog design today.