New Website Launched - Goldstar Heat Pumps

I've launched a new website for a client a couple of weeks ago - Goldstar Heat Pumps.  They used to be called Goldstar Electrical.  But they had made the decision to focus on heat pumps, so came to me for marketing help.

We decided to rebrand the company as "Goldstar Heat Pumps" with the focus of becoming the number one company in Hamilton for heat pumps and air conditioning.

So we created a new logo for them, developed sign-writing designs for their new vans, and launched a brand new website.

So if you're in Hamilton, Waikato or Bay of Plenty, and want  expert advice and installation on your heat pump - and a very sharp price - I recommend talking to Goldstar Heat Pumps.

Hacking My Way Through Wordpress

I've been building a couple of projects in Wordpress lately.  It's by far the easiest (and yet still powerful) content management system I've used.

Especially when you're willing to shell out a few $$ to buy some premium templates, widgets and support.  It gets things up and running really quickly.

But when it comes to customising some of the code, to get it to operate slightly differently, I definitely hack my way through in a not-so-expert way!  Last night I spent 2 1/2 hours trying to get the Advanced Expert widget to just display the "read more" tag at the end of a custom excerpt. 2 1/2 hours of trying to work out the logic of what this widget was doing.  If I had been to a web design course and learnt programming properly I think it would have only taken about 15 mins to work out!

But I'm pleased to say that in the end I got it to work just as I wanted.  And also posted the solution on the Wordpress forums, to hopefully help out others who have the same issue as I did.

Would be nice to know how to program properly!  I'll just have to make lots of money and be able to afford to employ programmers full-time!

So anyway, in case you're interested, you can view my solution for adding the "read more" tag to a custom excerpt in Wordpress here.