In many cases the difference between a great site and an awesome site can be as simple as a great logo, compelling content or mind-blowing photography. We offer an array of services to make certain you get the most from your website. Our team of graphic artists, logo designers, writers, and photographers/videographers are here to help.

Photography

Photography/Video – Photographs can make or break a website, it has to do with the human psyche and  perception of beauty. We work with a bunch of photographers but our favorite is Rebekah Butler. Please take a peek at her site RebekahButler.com. Want some action we also have an award winning videographer that does great work with the camera and also excels at editing.

Copy Writing

Don’t worry if you don’t have a way with words. You’re in good hands with our resident word wizard “Pen Pawling”. She’s a silver tongued devil that will tell your tale with just the right amount of technical jargon and creative juice.

Logo Design

Our logo designers love creating logos that capture the essence of your company. We contact you directly to learn more about your company, your feel and colors. Then you will be presented with at least 10 different versions. Most people love them ALL and have a difficult time picking just one.

WordPress Deluxe Hosting

You are presenting with many choices, some expensive and some very cheap. We offer reliable world class hosting provided by a dedicated server at Liquid Web perhaps the best server colocation facility in the world. We have used their facilities and services for almost a decade.

In most cases we can save you money. However, we provide hosting to our customers as service. Since we control the server, we are able to provide better support and if in the rare cases there’s an issue can quickly correct. Plus you only have to deal with one person for all aspects of your web site.

Our servers are monitored 24 hours a day seven days a week and are literally checked every 15 minutes to make certain all services are working correctly.

1: Standard hosting – on our dedicated harden Linux servers

2: Daily backups with 14 day retention

3: Additional daily backups (off-site server) with 30 day retention, customers can manage from dashboard.

4: Monthly backups to our Amazon servers with 6 month retention

5: Installation of dedicated security plugin and implementation of additional security

6: Regular updates of WordPress core files and plugins. Note this does not include paid plugins and may not apply to all plugins

7: Vulnerable plugins updated with 48 hours of release

8: Site are scanned every 24 hours for malware

9: Free SSL cert

10: Additional programming time if required is discounted from $125 to $100

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

Our new service provides two major advantages:

1: Speed: By distributing your content across cloud servers your site loads faster.

2: Security: Built-in rules check for known hacker activity and are automatically blocked.

We offer two plans:

Pond:

100$ setup/$100 annually CDN

Globally load balanced content delivery network (CDN)

Block known malicious activity to your site

Comment spam protection

Block visitors by country

Basic DDoS protection

River:

100$ setup/$500 annually CDN

Globally load balanced content delivery network (CDN)

Block known malicious activity to your site

Enhanced Security – Web Application Firewall, blocks SQL injection as well as the top ten vulnerabilities as identified by OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project)

Comment spam protection

Block visitors by country

Mobile Optimization – automatically resize images for fastest load time

Email and Spam Protection

We offer two services. One basic spam protection. However, our second business class email provides powerful spam protection provided by Postini and virus protection. In addition the mailboxes are 25 gigs in size, this is ever larger than the mail boxes provided by Google. Lastly we can import your mail into our new system (additional fee applies).

Biz Class Email

25GB Mailboxes
No need to delete. Our 25GB mailboxes hold up to 10 years worth of email, and we’re working to make them even larger.

Spam and Virus Protection
To keep your systems safe from email-borne threats, messages received from external mailboxes undergo three spam and virus scans.

Migrate Old Mail
Your move to Walden Pond Design is pain-free with our migrations options. We can migrate your email data to our servers.

Email Archiving

Backup your email our archiving service. Administrators can restore lost email, take advantage of search tools, and protect vital email — without extra software or expensive hardware. You can effortlessly back up every mailbox on your domain with our dedicated archiving protection. Annual charge is only $360. Please note our Email Archiving includes Biz Email

Message Backup
Delete with confidence. Rackspace Archiving automatically saves all outbound messages and messages that reach the inbox in a secure email archive with unlimited space. Search and restore messages from your archive.

Email Retention
Archiving provides bottomless email retention storage. Implement email archiving without software downloads.

Comprehensive Search
Search across some or all users message text, attachments, and metadata. Save searches for later viewing or for others to view.