Just in time for Christmas! Cirq Media completes a full makeover of the HopeHouse International website to a WordPress CMS site. Starting out with the ever popular WooThemes framework, and with design assistance from Kersey Graphics, we utilized the existing branding specs in the creation of the new site. HopeHouse International is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Franklin, TN that specializes in helping orphans in Ukraine find a family in Ukraine by acquiring and/or building homes with the assistance of volunteers from the United States. HopeHouse also visits Ukrainian orphanages in hard to reach locations through planned mission trips each year.
The new HopeHouse website also features multiple SSL-encrypted payment forms for sponsorship, trip payment, monthly giving, and more making it very easy for HopeHouse supporters and volunteers. Plus with WordPress, trip volunteers can keep friends at home updated through regular blogging via traditional and new mobile blogging. And HopeHouse videos have their own home on their very own HopeHouse YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/hopehouseintrnatl. HopeHouse will also be developing a presence on Facebook in the coming days. Stay tuned for that.
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If you are using WordPress for collecting any kind of payment online, you may have run into a problem with SSL certificates. If you are not actually collecting credit cards on your WordPress site, you don’t need SSL. But if you cross over and choose to put the payment forms directly on one of your WordPress pages, you need to have an SSL certificate and convert your payment pages to https. WordPress HTTPS, a plugin created by 
One of the big frustrations of getting your designs converted to your live website in the past is that many of the font types you like cannot be rendered unless the end user has that font type installed on their local machine. So you could create the fonts as image files and then render them them as images. This works OK for static pages. But what if you like a certain font type as your blog post titles. Creating an image each time you create a post just isn’t feasible. In recent years, a few options have been made available that allow you to use hosted font solutions that the server can push to the client’s browser.
Cirq Media is pleased to announce the creation of our training series called CIRQit Training. Our goal is to provide a non-threatening environment for those new to social media and more advanced sessions for those with some experience.
