FiddlerStudios

Why Your Business’ Facebook Page is a Waste of Your Time & Money

Tevya — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:27:47 +0000

Social Networking is all the rage right now. If you’ve got a business, you’ve got to be on Facebook, right? And a Twitter account is a must-have, even if you don’t know how to use it, correct? Oh, and LinkedIn, gotta be there too… oh and Google Plus is growing like crazy… and, and…! Actually: [...]

Trail Rides & Kids Chairs: Announcing 2 Great New Sites!

Tevya — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:53:09 +0000

We’re super excited to let you all know about 2 great new websites we just recently launched: Copper Cloud Ranch and Cool Kids Chairs (say that fast 5 times). Copper Cloud Ranch Copper Cloud Ranch is a ranch located in Page, AZ, and provides awesome trail rides around Lake Powell. It’s owned and operated by ranchers, and [...]

Van’s Websites Updated – Please Check Your Site

Tevya — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:40:34 +0000

We did some housekeeping on Van’s websites server, removing lots of unused plugins, updating many that were out of date, and even updating WordPress itself. Here’s what we accomplished: Please Check Your Website This update only affects Van’s Websites clients. If you are a Van’s client (does not apply to cPanel clients), please check your [...]

What the FiddlerStudios Acquisition Means for Van’s Websites Clients

Tevya — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:40:34 +0000

FiddlerStudios and Van’s Websites are a lot alike. So there’s not a lot that will change. However, a few things will have to change to allow us to move forward as a single company and not two, each with it’s own rules, setup, and service. So here’s what all this means for you: For the [...]

Why FiddlerStudios Charges $75 for A Whole Lot More Than Just “Hosting”

Tevya — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:12:40 +0000

Recently, we had two different instances where security was an issue for sites that were not hosted by us. In one instance some WordPress themes contained a known security flaw, but hadn’t been updated, and therefore allowed malware to get in and infect many sites. This meant that when you visited the site, your browser [...]

Van’s Websites Has Been Cleaned of All Malware & Is Secure

Tevya — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:00:44 +0000

Van’s Websites had been infected by malware. Though the efforts of our whole team, and the help of some great customers, we were able to first eliminate the malware, then track down and identify the security breech that allowed it to get in. Once we’d identified it. We eliminated the breech and everything is safe [...]

Van’s Websites is Now Part of FiddlerStudios

Tevya — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:56:02 +0000

You know how opportunity always seems to knock when you least expect it… and usually when its absolutely the most inconvenient? Well that’s how this deal went down. Jeff VanDrimmelen, owner of Van’s Websites and a friend, contacted me on on Monday Feb. 27th. He told me he was getting a promotion at his “day [...]

How to Use Evernote to Completely Change the Way You Do Family History & Genealogy

Kurt Francom — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:28:34 +0000

We had an incredible opportunity to attend RootsTech 2012 and present on family websites and Evernote. We were simply shocked by how many attended our presentation and received great feedback. Many wanted more information or simply weren’t able to attend so I promised them a free webinar on how to use Evernote to more effectively research [...]

Awesome New Network Marketing Websites

Kurt Francom — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:02:14 +0000

By far the most exciting industry to work in is network marketing. The people are excited, unique, personable, and more importantly — MOTIVATED. They have a desire to make more with their life and do so while helping those around them. For the past three years I have had the opportunity to work closely with [...]

How to Leave Godaddy.com

Tevya — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:36:59 +0000

UPDATE: 12/22/2011 Godaddy recently announced their support for SOPA. If you don’t know what SOPA is, it’s a bill that pretends to want to protect Copyright holders. However, it’s the old “using a club to kill a mosquito” approach that government seems to love: it will do far more damage than good. It will lead [...]

Copywriting Brochures, E-mails, & Other Business Marketing Content

Tevya — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:54:47 +0000

A topic that frequently comes up here at FiddlerStudios, and with our clients, is copywriting. According to Wikipedia, “Copywriting is the use of words and ideas to promote a person, business, opinion or idea.” Whether it’s a client that needs the logo we created for their new flyer they’re creating, or the text we have [...]

Avoid Network Solutions at All Costs

Tevya — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:28:56 +0000

Since we offer hosting and domain registration as a part of our services, we often get to work with various registrars and web hosts as we move existing websites over to their new home on FiddlerStudios’ hosting. Previously we told you why we don’t like Godaddy, and how to leave and avoid them, now we’ve [...]

Use Free Mint.com to Track Business Finances

Tevya — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:44:31 +0000

Here at FiddlerStudios we work with a lot of small and startup businesses. Because we’re a small business ourselves, we often learn and develop new ways that help us run our business. We want to share that with our clients and anyone that it might help. So this is the first of our articles on [...]

Announcing the New Site

Tevya — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 01:38:20 +0000

First, a BIG Thanks! We, the FiddlerStudios team would like to thank all those who gave feedback on our site and services, and apologize to those who intended to, but didn’t realize we were going to close the feedback so soon. We actually didn’t either, but got plenty of great feedback, and were able to start updating [...]

Help Us Improve Our Website & Packages

Tevya — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 23:29:38 +0000

FiddlerStudios is designed to provide great business websites and marketing, as well as family websites, eStores, professional blogs, and more. And we’ve been doing exactly that for a decade now. We recently launched this new site, as well as our new no-hassle website packages. But we’re not stopping there, we want to continue improving in [...]

An Awesome Website for Your Small Business

Tevya — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:11:37 +0000

Our no-hassle websites are perfect for anyone who wants to see their business grow, but doesn’t want one more thing to add to their plate. Instead of an a large one-time payment to build your website, we stay with you for the long term. No more trying to find some friend-of-a-friend-of-a-relative who might know how [...]

FiddlerStudios Site Redesign

Tevya — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:59:14 +0000

Well, as you might have noticed, we got so busy designing other people’s websites that our last site redesign never got finished. When we recently started again, we decided to make a few more changes. We think these changes make the site look really cool. The great thing is, that its not much of a [...]

New Server – site not displaying images

Tevya — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:27:57 +0000

FiddlerStudios is in the process of switching to a new server. Our old host had all our sites offline, once again. This was the last straw, so I switched web hosts. While setting things up on the new server, I got creative and decided to put WordPress (the content management system we use) in a [...]

Announcing our new site!

Tevya — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:51:52 +0000

…and our new logo! Okay, our new site is officially functioning! Everything is not in place yet, so you’ll notice that our old film site is not functioning anymore, since we have that part mostly completed. However, productions.fiddlerstudios.com is still available as the Services section of our website is not functioning yet. We’re very pleased [...]