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Just a few of our adventures told from the perspective of Marshall (our social media and content expert). We want to share our work lives and things that are sweet in the techie-world!

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Hyde Park City Can Edit EVERYTHING On Their Site With Ease!

We are so happy to have assisted Hyde Park rebuild their city website. Their new site is live and secure for residents to visit, anytime. Before the new site, their ability to edit was limited-only able to adjust mostly PDF documents and a couple text spots throughout their site. 

On their new site, Hyde Park staff have been busy regularly adjusting the city site with latest news and events for residents to be aware of. The city staff wanted noticeable icons for residents to be able to locate the most searched for items at the top of the home page. They also wanted Quick Links for residents to access the most popular pages all in one place.

Hyde Park provides lots of fabulous events for the city residents, and they want to make sure that is publicized to their citizens. They are utilizing our BLOG feature to promote their free events to the public. Hyde Park also uses Pigeon SMS to notify people of events if they have opted into receiving email/text notifications. So when they post a new event for the city, that information will be sent to those who have signed up to receive notifications. 

As with any government website we have worked on in the past, Hyde Park has to regularly update forms and documents, so they are UP-TO-DATE for their residents. Our file uploading tool makes it easy to add new documents whenever it's needed. Then they link those documents anywhere on the site-making it super accessible to people. 

We know that not everyone can be in front of their computer, so we made sure their mobile version is just as easy to navigate as their desktop version.   If someone wants to see the latest from the Mayor, they can check out the monthly newsletters with a single swipe!

As with all our clients, we are always available to assist Hyde Park in managing their website. That is what we're here for, to make website building easy!  We hope they're as happy with their new city site as we have been working with them!  If you are interested in updating or building a new site, contact us! We can help you realize that change. 

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S.C.O.R.E. SS Is a Sure Bet!

S.C.O.R.E. S SS just went live, and it sure looks like a slam dunk! Their partnering company, Sport Court of the Rockies was looking for a site that they could easily add and edit, and we knew exactly how to showcase their client work.

Since S.C.O.R.E. SS offers several different flooring options, we had to be sure to be clear about what each flooring style provided for sport activities.

Their Gallery showcases the variety of flooring options they have, so you can get examples of previous client work, and filter your search accordingly. 

S.C.O.R.E. Sports Specialist wanted to be sure their potential clients know the services they offer, and what their consultants provide-helping every step of the design/construction way!

We know their very capable team at S.C.O.R.E. SS can now edit their site as their business expands and continues to grow. They can easily add images to their gallery on a whim, or customize their forms-whenever they want. Our content management tool is that easy!

If you are looking to build a new site, contact our team. We're happy to assist! (see what we did there?)

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Our New Director of Cloud is Here!

SquareHook is extremely pleased to announce that KC Hansen has joined us as our Director of Cloud. He comes with over four years of Production Cloud experience. KC recently consulted for enterprise clients such as American Family Insurance, Melaleuca, American Heart Association, Hilton Grand Vacations and many more. His time consulting for these companies has honed his skills at automation, security, and cost control. He also brings Azure and AWS certifications, helping SquareHook become a Silver partner with both Microsoft and Amazon. 

When KC is not working he enjoys time with his wife and two kids, relaxing anywhere on a beach, camping and four wheeling in the mountains. 

SquareHook is proud to now offer these additional services:

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

Cloud Migration

Security Audits - Remediation

Load Testing

Cloud Consulting

Architecting

Disaster Recovery

We’re so pumped that KC is bringing so much to our team. We can’t wait to integrate these wonderful offerings to our clients!

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The City of Rupert is Just Showing Off

We have been giddy to get the City of Rupert's new site live. Rupert's site is legit stunning! Why is it such a stunner? Well, look at the bird's eye view of the city in their awesome video embedded as a banner. People love visuals, and this certainly showcases their city in the BEST way!

A stationary navigation makes maneuvering around the website super easy.  The clean color pallet certainly makes the site straightforward and easy to consume, from a visitor's perspective. 

Their home page features guides you to their most frequently requested pages and answers a lot of questions right off the bat. We love that their staff can easily add in new city minutes and agendas, without having to ask a developers help. Or add a new business spotlight if they wanted. But you know what? They can ask us whenever, if they did need help adding content to their site.

It is definitely our favorite site of 2021 so far! We know that if you're thinking about visiting Rupert, their site sure makes it look like an enticing and charming visit. If you have any questions about your site, or would like our team to transform your site into something spectacular, contact us!

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DDOS Attack, and How it Affects YOU!

Recently, we have had several new clients come over to the SquareHook tool while dealing with a DDOS Attack.  For those of you who may not know what that is, we’re here to enlighten you!

A DDOS, or distributed denial-of-service attack is when a website is temporarily down /interrupted by a host through the Internet. There is occasionally someone out there that purposefully does damage to a website or server.  An attacker tells computers to contact a certain server/website repeatedly.  The new flow of traffic can confuse or shutdown a legitimate website in the process. 

Talk about inconvenient!  If someone who was trying to access your website during a ddos attack and hits your site, they may think that something was broken or perhaps your company is out of commission.   That is not good for business.

SquareHook takes actions to protect our clients by masking the IP address of the server with a firewall that rejects automated attacks, protecting the end point of the server and flagging the attack across all sites, not just theirs.

Contact us at 801-386-9828 to find out about what other services we can offer you existing or newly growing business!  We are here to mobilize the web, and make it easy for you!

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Creative Intention Makes its Mark

When Deanna reached out for help to build out her Creative Intention website, she was a woman with a vision. She knew exactly what she wanted, which made it so easy to build it out!

We built out a blog feed that will auto pull the 4 most recent blogposts to popup on the home page. That way, her site visitors can see the latest with Creative Intentions.

Deanna can easily add new blogposts at her leisure. She can also schedule posts out. She doesn't have to go to her site everyday to blog about courses and events. She can prep lots of posts at once, and they will auto post if she schedules them out. We also added the Facebook feed on the sidebar, so it auto-pulls. 

We're so pumped with how it turned out. If you are looking to build out a site, adjust your web hosting, or make adjustments on your site contact our team!

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The TDSportsWest Site is a Slam Dunk

We love doing a new site, especially when it is an existing customer. Sport Court West's sibling company needed a new site. We were so happy to help TD Sports West out. They didn't many pages, but those pages needed to make an impact!

One of their most important features was their Service Request form. They needed clients to have the ability to upload images (especially from their smartphones) to give the most information possible to TD Sports before they work on their project. We utilized code from FormSite to create that functionality.

With our client being familiar with our Content Management System, they can continue to easily add more pages, a blog, new forms, whatever they want! As their needs change, they can change their site with very little effort. 

They're so happy since they launched their new site. We're so pleased with the results and hope they continue to reach out if they need help. If you're looking for a site, contact us!

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WordPress Hosting is About to Change!

Our development team has been working over the last year on a WordPress hosting platform that could be really beneficial to you WordPress clients out there. It includes: 

- A load balanced environment. Each server is on 2 or more servers for high availability and uptime. - We provide Database management. We provide backups of their Wordpress database automatically, taking snapshots every 12 hours and trailing the transactions in between. - 1-2 hours of development on site (updating widgets and plugins, etc) - Our hosting also provides File backup. We utilize Git to keep copies and changes to their site files - We offer SSL through CloudFlare, which is also included. (So that can save up to $300-500 annually)  - CDN (Content Delivery Network) is also built in. - And finally, we offer DoS prevention in the hosting plan. We are actively monitoring for DoS attacks and have automated tools to block attacks.

If you're considering a better hosting solution, contact us!  Click here to learn more about our our WP hosting features.

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A New Dental That's Sure to Make You Smile

We are so happy to see Clearwater Family Dental is now live, ready for their grand opening coming soon!

They wanted to make sure their site was super informative, but easy to consume. The contemporary site styling is so clean-just like their gorgeous new building. 

We built out the base and they filled in the content that was important to them. Their staff was trained on the SquareHook tool to easily add new text and imagery at their leisure. 

They wanted to make sure if was really clear how to get a hold of them, so their contact us page has both a custom form (that they can edit at any time)  They can also export their form submissions to use for marketing and promotions. 

We are so happy with how their site turned out!  If you are looking to build out a site that fits your needs, contact us!

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Vadis Has a New Website!

We were so thrilled to help our a new client out of Washington, revamp their site to really showcase all the good they're doing. Vadis' mission is to help adults with disabilities and homeless youth find housing and work, and get them involved in the community. 

With the ease of the SquareHook tool, they were able to build out pages that  went into more detail about what they're all about. 

Their previous site was hard to access for their team, making their site regularly out of date. With everything going on with the Covid-19 pandemic, they could add the latest news on the home page-informing site visitors of the new changes and regulations to keep everyone safe. Having an out-of-date site can really make you look less credible, and confuse site visitors.

Their previous site was hard to access for their team, making their site regularly out of date. With everything going on with the Covid-19 pandemic, they could add the latest news on the home page-informing site visitors of the new changes and regulations to keep everyone safe. Having an out-of-date site can really make you look less credible, and confuse site visitors. 

Vadis does utilize donations to help make their mission a reality, so we added a PayPal plugin to their site in a number of places, so it was easy to find and make that contribution.

We're so happy with how their site turned out, and we know that their team is already so capable of updating and providing the most current information on their site.

If you are looking to revamp or build a site for the first time, contact us! We promise, you will be editing it with very little assistance in no time!

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Thrive Nursery has Sprung

Using our easy website builder, they now have a website presence, that also provides pertinent information to their green-thumb clients. Their Reference Guide is super important to them, and they wanted to make sure it was prevalent on their site. It is a large pdf that helps people know what trees would work best for your yard/provides specs on things, etc. 

The SquareHook tool has a FILE upload feature that allows you to link documents to your site easily.

Their clean, simple site looks great, and their team can easily edit their site at their leisure! If you are looking to make adjustments to you site, contact us for more information.

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Transport Services of Nevada Is Online!

We love helping out clients that are solely looking to have an online presence. When TSN came to us, they wanted to create a clean site, that provided contact information for clients who needed to rent/buy equipment and were looking to reach out.  

TSN wanted to make sure the products they offered were available to view. We used out Store Feature, which allows items to be showcased- without having to buy online. 

It this case, a website visitor could visit their products page and they could see options, then click on a specific item for additional specs. it was more of a ‘Contact us for more information’ if they liked a part on the site. 

This also allowed TSN to put in a product brochure for clients to gather more information ahead of time. Our client is now editing their site, and checking out their traffic by utilizing Google Analytics. So many of our clients want to know where the hot spots are on their site, and this free option gives them that ability.   We love when a client is happy, and a few days turn around made this site a win in everyone’s book!

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Party Planning Spectacular!

Our very own Emma has been a party thrower for years, and decided for her own birthday this year, she would put together a website for her side business. Using our SquareHook tool she was able to create something fun and playful for Pinnable Party Rentals.

She wanted to showcase her rental products, and individual party themes. Uploading and moving content around in our tool is easy and takes no time at all. With our drag and drop tool, you can switch things around so quick!

Another part of her side hustle was photography for special occasions. She can upload and switch up her portfolio at any time. Our tool keeps a database of images, that stay in your cloud until you choose to delete them-you’re welcome!

For someone who throws fun get togethers and showcases her rental products, she utilized our Blog feature. She can narrate her parties with imagery and text. She can even prep blog posts for future posting, or back date it, if she wants. 

We’re thrilled to see anyone build their site from the ground up. And the best part?  Mobile friendly. Easy to change content out. Blog at your leisure. It’s all spectacular!

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Recovering An Old Gem

When our client Italian Family Tree reached out to us recently, they were hoping for a mini miracle. They had take a step back from their business. They hadn’t used their site in several years, and their site had lapsed.  

We were able to recover their old site off Way Back Machine, which to them was such a surprise. WBM is such a fabulous tool to help people get old information back from long ago. They couldn’t remember what was on their site, lost all their old files on an old computer, so they thought they had to start completely over .We can’t always find old sites in full, but when we do, it is such a help. We lucked out, grabbing some content from their old site. 

We built their tool with one of our great templates, and adjusted it with new imagery, that was relevant to their business. We walked them through editing their site, so they can adjust their site at their leisure. 

They were so thrilled that their new site was mobile friendly, and not in Times New Roman. :) We’re glad we could help!

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Sugar Pop Nails is One SWEET Site!

Monica is a longtime client of ours. She has built a couple other websites with us for her esthetic businesses.  She said she wanted us to rebuild a site she made on  a different CMS, so she could have all her sites in one spot. We knocked it out quickly.  Sugar Pop Nails is one smokin’ site.

Monica wanted a one page site that anchored to different topics: Services, About, Contact. Our tool is super user friendly to make that happen. :)

We did make one additional page: a Contact Us page, so she can gather a bit more information potential clients.

Like all our sites, Sugar Pop Nails is completely mobile friendly!  All sites should be.  Why? Because who do you know that doesn’t browse on their smartphone all the time?

We loved the images she provided to us! They really make the site pop! (pun intended.) Now she can edit her site if information changes at ANY time!

Contact us if you’re looking to make a killer site/improve on the site you already have. We are here to assist!

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We Are Not Wonder Woman, but We Can Save the Day For Clients

Monticello City contacted us a few weeks back, in a serious pickle. Their previous site went down suddenly, and couldn’t be brought back up. They asked that we get something back up immediately. We used Way Back Machine to gather content from their own site. 

We built out the framework of their site from snapshots from Way Back Machine, including a few hefty pages like this staff page. We then walked their staff through the SquareHook tool so they could flesh out their site, at their leisure.

They did ask for some custom forms, which we were happy to oblige. We built out an Owner Permit form and Employee Form with upload features. They built out several forms of their own, with our killer Form Builder. They can access their form submissions on the tool at any time.

Monticello’s mobile site is killer too!  We are pleased to know that their site is accessible on any tablet, mobile phone, or desktop. 

We are so glad they have a site up and running, for their users to access information they need. But we’re even more stoked that they are editing the site and feeling confident in making changes on the fly.

If you are looking for a site revamp, your site has gone down and disappeared, or want to start from scratch, we are here to help!  Contact us if you need assistance or guidance. :)

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A Truly Delectable Site

We had a great time working with Vice President Joe, to make this site. He wanted to create the base of the site on his own, and we came in to add some additional features to give that WOW factor. 

I mean, come on! How gorgeous is this site? It’s not hard to be attracted to this site, with all the beautiful visuals to wet your appetite to learn more!  The home page was really basic. We added some parallax elements to make the scrolling fun and interesting, with buttons that led to key areas of the website. 

Thrive utilized our Portfolio feature to showcase some of the products they freeze dry. It is also somewhat interactive, where a site visitor can select an image to make it larger. Again, the images make this page so visually appealing. 

The contact us page was kept simple, with basic contact information, and a form to collect information on inquiring clients. They can adjust their form at any time, if they want to gather additional/less information. 

The mobile version of this site is completely charming too!  You can never go wrong with gorgeous images. It makes all the difference in the world.

We are so pleased with how quickly this beautiful site came together. If you want to start building your website out, like Joe did, and need some customization after, we’re you’re guy!  Contact us today to inquire about what we can do to help your site look incredible.