As you have probably noticed, we updated our website design to something a little more simple and easier on the eyes. We had GREAT feedback on the last design and are considering offering it as a Limited Edition template soon.

Most importantly, we’ve merged the former Boutique Website Templates back with our Redpeach Designs site so everything is now in one place again. It’s just easier. So now, at redpeachdesigns.com we have all of your custom and pre-made website needs.

Also, we’ve made all of our sites/pages have the exact same design – so our Help Desk, Forum, Blog, main site, etc. all have the same design, same links, etc. and it’s much easier to navigate to find what you need.

New templates coming soon!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have added a mailing list feature where you can be notified when we add new templates – you can JOIN HERE.
Speaking of new templates, we just added a couple this past week:

Fresh Lavender OOAK Website Template

Orange & Brown Limited Edition Website Template

These last couple of months I’ve rearranged the sites, did some design changes and a name change as well. Turns out that the new name is really similar to an existing business that I was unaware of even after doing some searching, so I am just going back to red peach designs!

We will be attending the ABC Trade Show in Las Vegas next week, Tuesday 9/11 through Thursday 9/13 and will not be able to work on projects at that time. I will have my laptop and have internet access from the hotel and will check email daily for any emergencies that may arise.

We are leaving very early Tuesday morning and returning late Thursday night and so I will not be back to work until that Friday.

I will be working very hard up until that point to make sure things are taken care of before we leave.

And if any of you are going, see you there!

Introducing…Boutique Website Templates
As part of all of the changes going on around here, we would like to introduce our new sister site Boutique Website Templates! This new site is where we now offer all of our pre-made website templates and E-store packages, AlohaShop hosting plans, and many matching add-ons. Check it out! We will be adding new pre-made templates in the next few days. We have a new one available now, see Fun Hip Chic website template here.

All of the custom design services are staying at the Boutique Web Design site, which has only a few products that are orderable from the site at any time (Search Engine Optimization packages and Internet Marketing services). The site is mostly informational now, for our current and potential custom design clients. For custom design projects, you can contact us for availability and to schedule yours.

Red Peach Solutions…where did it go?
With all these changes, Red Peach Solutions didn’t go away, it’s now the “parent company” for all of our websites and now has a viewable page at www.redpeachsolutions.org. Also, the help desk has moved to www.redpeachsolutions.org/support, however all old links will still take you there.

New E-Store Packages
I mentioned E-store packages – these are new! By ordering a package, you receive a nice discount and they include the most popular and necessary products/services for running or opening your online store. You can turn any of our pre-made templates into a full e-store, just select which package you want when ordering your template.

Custom Web Design Project Additions
Coming soon we will be making some changes to our custom web design packages, adding monthly website maintenance to the each package as well as some changes to the shopping cart offered (see below for details on that). The website maintenance is an important addition – with the use of the AlohaCart, it’s not quite as easy for people to make changes to website pages, add pages, etc. and also, we want our custom web design clients’ sites to always look as great as they did when we first completed them. While many clients may be ok with making some of these changes on their own, we want to provide the services so we can keep the sites looking as professional as possible always.

AlohaCart Changes
We have changed the way we offer AlohaCart. AlohaCart is better for more advanced users and requires more support, server resources, and customizations on our end so we are currently only going to offer it to our custom web design clients via our E-commerce Web Design packages, where we will include full customization of the cart in the packages, or through our upcoming premium hosted cart plans which will start around $29.95 per month. Stay tuned…

For those that already use version 4 of AlohaCart, you can continue to do so. We will be updating your version 4 stores to the newest version sometime this week or coming weekend. For those that are using version 3 we will need to upgrade you to the new version very soon. The upgrade itself is free, however your template design and any pages you may have added will need to be re-created in the new cart…they don’t transfer over automatically to the new version. So if you are able to do that yourself, that is great, however if you don’t have HTML experience then you can have us do it for you which can range from $45 to about $135 depending on how many pages you have. More details on this later, or feel free to contact us if you would like to upgrade now.

I realize that was a lot of info and if you’ve made it this far, thank you! If you have any questions about anything, please feel free to contact us!

Thanks!
Danielle

We are glad to finally say that our help desk and website are back up and running, and we apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused over the last couple of days! You should not notice, but our help desk is now at redpeachsolutions.org/support (instead of redpeachsolutions.com/support), however the old links will just redirect to the new location so you don’t need to change anything on your end…it’s just an fyi.

Also, we had a little bit of server downtime a couple of nights ago during some scheduled maintenance. It lasted longer than anticipated, and had I known I would have sent out an email beforehand. It was supposed to be a quick thing that only lasted a few minutes, however in the future I will send out a notification anyway. For anyone who is interested, we upgraded from MySQL 4 to MySQL 5. This should not affect your sites with us as we have already made the changes necessary.

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