The latest Clever Starfish creation to go live is a colourful site for the very talented people at Creative Quilting Services.

Dan and Jo Northcott wanted to offer a range of threads and fabrics for sale direct to the public, as well as showcase the quilting services they offer with the help of “Barb”, the room-sized quilting machine (check the about page for a link to a photo of Barb).

The site features a shopping cart with secure online credit card purchase. The products and news are managed by Dan and Jo in an online administration area.

Check out Creative Quilting Services

Whew, we’re back!

Due to a denial of service attack on our US-based web host, the Clever Starfish web site was unavailable for 24 hours from Sunday evening. Fortunately, none of our US-hosted client web sites were affected, as they reside on a separate machine at the facility.

Over the past few weeks we have been in the process of moving all of our clients to Fasthit, a local hosting company. Fasthit has excellent pricing, fast servers and great support response times as well as a complete range of accounts (both Windows and Linux), and we’ve been really happy so far with the accounts that have already moved. After this latest issue, we will be speeding up the migration process to get all our clients sites and our own sites over to the new system.

You can’t beat picking up the phone and talking to a system administrator in your own timezone!

The Starfish team are proud to announce the launch of a new web site for Bellydance WA.

School director Renate van Dordrecht wanted a stylish and exciting new site to promote the classes and festivals that Bellydance WA run. Of particular importance was the ability for Renate to easily maintain the content on the site, and update the class schedules. And of course, the site had to have a look and feel (and flair!) to match Renate’s classes!

Bellydance WA is sponsoring the 2008 WAMED dance festival, so Renate wanted to provide all of the event information in a clean and easy to read way.

We setup the new site to be maintained by Renate in Adobe Contribute, with the “What’s Shaking” section powered by the WordPress blogging engine.

We also set up an easy to manage mailing list system for keeping students and other interested people up to date on happenings around the school and the art of bellydancing in general.

We wish Renate all the best for WAMED 2008!