myQnation is a vBulletin powered forum started by the same team behind G35NYC. I have been working with them on the launch of the myQnation forum for the past couple of weeks now, and I am happy to announce that the new forums are finally live to the public! The design features a modern, flat […]
Category Archives: Rapid Purple News
Free Google Adwords $100 Credit Giveaway 2013
All of my clients have always received a $100 Google Adwords credit to help them jump-start their online marketing. September of last year I ran a Google Adwords Credits giveaway to help give something back to the community. These were issued out at random to any new subscribers to our mailing list. For those of […]
Scheduled Maintenance: .COM & .NET Domain Name Registry
This is to let you know that on July 20, 2013 EST (July 21, 2013 GMT) the registry of .COM and .NET domains will be processing scheduled maintenance. The time frame for the maintenance is scheduled to start on July 20, 2013 (Saturday) 9:00 PM and run through to 9:45 PM EST (July 21, Sunday at 01:00 – 01:45 GMT). During this time domain […]
Upcoming $1/yr Price Increase on Popular Domains
As if July 17th I will unfortunately have to raise the prices on .com, .net, .biz, .info and .org domain names by $1 per year. The price if these TLDs has went up twice now since I have originally introduced our price of $9.99, and unfortunately I can no longer eat the price increases. The […]
New Webmaster Tools & Webmaster Resources Directory Launched
I’ve been hard at work re-organizing all of the free resources available here on Rapid Purple, and things are finally ready to be announced to you all – the public. First off I have gotten rid of all of the Flash generators that used to be available. To be honest, as the web moves further […]
HI Abseiling Custom WordPress Website Complete
Back in April I had first mentioned the redesign of the HI Abseiling website – a custom WordPress based theme drawn up by Colin Berwick in Photoshop, and converted over to WordPress by me. HI Abseiling are one of London’s premier window cleaning providers, along with a wide range of other services including concrete testing, blasting, […]
Website Launched for Sandoony Spa
Sandoony Spa, located in Brooklyn – New York, came to me with a full flash-based website that they needed to get away from and build something a bit more modern, more intuitive, and easily accessible across a wide range of devices. As such their original flash website was scrapped and work started on a brand new site, […]
Redesigned ONEighty Website Launched
I’ve been hard at work on the redesign of the ONEighty NYC website for the last couple of months – and there have been a few teaser shots posted here and on my LinkedIN account. As of this week however, the website is officially live – so I wanted to take some time and walk […]
Custom Backend Developed for Signature Auto Leasing
Signature Auto Leasing, a New York based leasing company, came to us with a static website, perfect for a leasing company – however lacking certain functionality. For example, their home-page features 6 lease specials – which are displayed through the use of rollover images. Finalizing each row are 2 static images which lead to their […]
Notice: UK DC Scheduled Rack Change
For all of our hosting customers housed at the UK datacenter, would like to inform you about an upcoming maintenance in our UK Data Center scheduled to take place later this week. Starting today May 14th, we will be relocating our servers to new racks and will also be performing a major network upgrade. The expected […]
Working on Several Custom WordPress Websites
I am finishing up work on two custom WordPress based websites – one is a complete redesign of the ONEighty NYC website; and the other is a redesign of the HI Abseiling website. We’ll kick-start with the website for HI Abseiling, one of London’s premier window cleaning providers. HI Abseiling also supply an array of in […]
Quick WordPress Updates for Africa IQ
I was contracted over the weekend by AfricaIQ to help them with some quick WordPress updates for their website – which needed to be done quickly since their site had to launch today. The changes consisted of mostly cosmetic fixes and updates – along with the development of a custom Categories listing widget, based off […]
Notice: Mail Server Hardware Failure in Illinois, USA Datacenter
I regret to inform you that a there is a hard disk failure on one of the mail servers in the Steadfast, Chicago, Illinois datacenter. The faulty hardware is being replaced; unfortunately this will require a file system check before booting – which will result in several hours of downtime. Any further updates and announcements regarding this […]
Notice: Maintenance in Sydney, AUS Datacenter on 04/09/13
For all of our hosting customers housed in the Syndey, Australia datacenter I wish to inform you of an upcoming server rack change that will take place on April 9th, between 4pm and 6pm EST. During this time the expected server downtime is roughly 30 minutes – and as always we will all do our […]
Logo for Rim Repair Company, RimFocus
Not everything I do goes onto the portfolio here on Rapid Purple, however I do like to mention some of the smaller projects that are just interesting to me – like this logo design that just got finished for a local rim repair company called RimFocus. The logo is derived from the Porsche crest, complete […]
New Webmaster Tools Added
[frame align=”right”][/frame]I have launched a few more webmaster tools which have been added to the Rapid Purple collection of Online Webmaster Tools & Generators. The one I’m most excited about is a great new online generator for a fancy css and javascript based navigation menu with onMouseover hover features to both highlight the selected item, […]
ONEighty Automotive Image Hosting Beta Launched
I have been working with ONEighty lately to develop an automotive image hosting website for them. Finally the initial public beta has been launched with the majority of all functionality complete. The design still has some fine tuning to go through – however that is exactly what the slide-out recommendations tab is for on the […]
LoremPixel & Other Tools Added to Webmasters Resource Directory
Among all of the other recent changes happening here at Rapid Purple, I am doing my best to continue to grow the free webmaster resources directory on here.
New Tools Launched: HTML to WORD/PDF Generator
Every now and then I find myself using a computer that doesn’t have Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat Pro installed. Maybe it had a trial version that had expired, or simply never had it in the first place – however here I am sitting by this computer and I need to create a Microsoft Word/Adobe Acrobat PDF […]
.COM/.NET/.ORG Domain Names Only $9.99
With the launch of our new hosting services, comes the launch of our domain name services – with some of the best prices around. With Rapid Purple Hosting as your domain name registration partner, you can choose from more than 50 domain extensions for your domain – from the most popular .COM and .NET to country-specific […]