2013

Wordpix Debuts Line of Floral Notecards

In April 2013, Wordpix launched the website www.MyFloralNotecards.com and the floral notecards line featuring some 50 of Peggi Ridgway's flower photos. The notecards are 4.25 x 5.5", blank inside to encourage personal messages, and most are suitable for any occasion (birthday, wedding, Mother's Day, get well, sympathy, Administrative Professionals Day, etc.) Please visit the website for more details and to view the card catalog: www.myfloralnotecards.com 

2010

Wordpix Introduces Office Support and Virtual Assistant (VA) Services

In June 2010, Wordpix introduced office support and virtual assistant (VA) services, capitalizing on the wealth of experience and exceptional skills of its founder and manager. This service, offered through email, phone and fax, helps clients get word processing and spreadsheet projects accomplished quickly, correctly and with a professional look. Learn more here.

2009

Wordpix Relocates Main Office

In August 2009, Wordpix relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where principals had maintained a satellite office for 20 years, while retaining a satellite office in Buena Park, California. Two part-time assistants oversee the Southern California operation, and the same highly skilled technical and creative team continues to serve the needs of the Wordpix valued customers. Call toll free at 800 200-1101 for more details.

Wordpix Releases Coffee Table Historical Book

Sending Flowers to America, a 288-page hardbound full color book about the history and development of the floral industry in Southern California, was released in early 2009 through its publisher, Wordpix client, the American Florists' Exchange / Los Angeles Flower Market. The one-of-a-kind collector's book is available through Amazon.com  

The Wordpix team has embarked on a year-long project to research, write, design and produce a hardbound pictorial history of the American Florists Exchange - Los Angeles Flower Market. Jan Works, of Works Words in Fullerton, California, and Theresa Fajardo of Anaheim will assist project manager Peggi Ridgway in the creation of this important historical resource. The book will be released at a major floral design event to be held at the Los Angeles Flower Market in 2008.

Wordpix established its affiliation with Total Merchant Supply to offer a comprehensive line of services and products to customers looking for effective credit card transaction processes for their websites. Total Merchant Supply simplifies and lowers the cost of the customer's initial application for merchant and payment gateway accounts and offers features for the online shopping experience. For more information, visit the Total Merchant Supply link from the Wordpix home page: www.wordpix.com

Successful Website Marketing, a 144-page workbook for small business website owners, has been released by Wordpix. The book contains exercises, examples, checklists and forms to help website owners effectively promote their websites and features articles by several marketing experts including best-selling author and Internet marketer Catherine Seda, Seda Communication.

One of the goals of the book is to help the website owner realize what his true product or service really is, and then to write the keywords and headlines that accurately reflect the benefits of that product or service to the user. This information can be used in the site's overall strategy for attracting search engine robots and getting a higher ranking.

The book includes lists of free search engines, online (paid) advertising programs, ideas for developing partnerships with other websites, and many promotional techniques that cost little (or nothing) to implement. Its core value is in the one-on-one approach it takes, walking the website owner through the steps of promoting his website in a personal, tutor-like setting. It is believed to be the only book formatted as a workbook for the web marketing self help topic.

Successful Website Marketing sells for $19.95 at the company's online mall at www.LaZone.com (we pay sales tax and shipping). It retails at $26.95 at Amazon.com.

Wordpix Solutions announces its affiliation with MarketersChoice.com and the shopping cart software services of 1ShoppingCart.com. The relationship makes it easy for Wordpix customers (and non-customers) to sign up for shopping carts for their websites by clicking from the link on the Wordpix home page.

In an effort to facilitate the setup, development and integration of shopping cart functions for e-commerce customers, Wordpix Solutions announces it is now a reseller of Authorize.net. This service fills the Payment Gateway provider phase of the purchasing of an item in a shopping cart, approving or declining the credit card transaction and depositing the funds into the website owner's business checking account.

Web Savvy for Small Business, a new book offering tips, examples and help for people thinking about creating web sites, looking for a web designer or hosting firm or hoping to find help in redesigning or promoting their web sites, was released by Wordpix Solutions. The book was written by Peggi Ridgway, Wordpix founder, and retails for $15.95. Please visit the web site at MyWebSavvy.com for more details.

Aligning with the company's official domain name, WORDPIX.COM, principals at Wordpictures have moved to change the company's name officially to Wordpix Solutions.

"In the past, clients and colleagues have not easily associated the Wordpictures name with our domain name of Wordpix," says Peggi Ridgway, owner and founder. "Although we enjoyed our unique Wordpictures name for eleven years, even trademarking it at one point, we were not able to obtain it as a domain. We feel that assuming the Wordpix name clarifies everything and puts us right where we want to be -- creating a wide range of solutions for small businesses and making it easy for people to find us online."

Address Change. At the same time, the company has moved its official mailing address from a postal box in La Mirada, a neighboring town, to P.O. Box 218, Buena Park, CA 90621-0218. The address move was made to more closely identify this Buena Park-based business.

Wordpictures principal Peggi Ridgway has been named editor of the bi-monthly newsletter, The Bloomin' News the official publication of The Los Angeles Flower Market of the American Florists Exchange, Ltd. Ms. Ridgway is an award-winning writer and author.

Buena Park, CA. Wordpictures announced recently that it has been certified and now offers its web clients the ability to conduct secure transactions through their web sites hosted with Wordpictures.

Web hosted clients will now have the opportunity in the near future to participate in Wordpictures’ secure transaction program, which will allow transactions to be processed securely through encryption and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) programming. Wordpictures has established a special web site for the processing of such transactions at 123secure.com.

Certification was obtained through the Thawte Hosting Partner Program, the world’s largest and most successful SSL reseller program, with more than 3,000 member ISPs worldwide. The program provides ISPs and Web hosting companies with a customized and optimized management interface for managing their customers’ digital certificates. Thawte is a global provider of digital certificate products and the second largest Internet Certificate Authority worldwide, with 41% of the Internet’s SSL Web server market.

For more information, please contact Wordpictures.

Orange County Metro magazine published a full page article about Wordpictures in its November 4, 1999 edition. Author John Marshall, a freelance writer and television anchor, covered the company's history and its evolution from being strictly a newsletter/brochure production company in 1989 to its current involvement in web design and hosting utilizing the services of professional design, writing and programming consultants.