Here we snow again

Western Washington, and Bellingham was blanketed with many inches of snow, 14 inches in some places. Bellingham’s Mayor Tim Douglas asked that all non essential personnel stay home. With the beauty of Microsoft Small Business Server, your employees can easily stay home, watch the kids, and work. Hardlines received many excited emails from employees of businesses where Hardlines had installed SBS that hadn’t yet realized the power of Remote Web Workplace. All of Hardlines’ employees were also able to effectively work from home and avoid the icy roads. It’s the perfect tool for snow days.

Hardlines is using 100% Green Energy

As a continuing effort to reduce out impact on the local and world environment, Hardlines Company has become one of the first companies in the state to use 100% Green Energy. The energy types used are Solar, Wind, Biomass, Tidal, Geothermal, and Hydrogen/Fuel Cell. As customer’s are aware, Hardlines is committed to evironmental preservation. Among the other ways we are reducing our impact on our plant are: Offering paperless billing, using energy efficient servers, purchasing credits to make our company carbon neutral, printing on recycled paper, recycling our office paper/plastic/aluminum/batteries/computers, offering bus passes and car pool incentives to employees and more.

Hardlines article in The Bellingham Business Journal

Kenny Brown from The Bellingham Business Journal sat down with Aaron Booker of Hardlines Company when he need to speak with an expert on Domain Names. Aaron Booker was cited many times in the article, and provided some expert knowledge for many consumers and businesses to help avoid domain name expiration, and other problems associated with registering domain names from fly-by-night web hosting companies, loss-leaders. The article can be read online at The Bellingham Business Journal.

Successful Server Upgrade

We are pleased to announce that the server upgrade was a success. The server should be noticably snappier with the upgrades that were done. Enjoy!

Introducing SiteZen site builder tool

The latest feature for our customers is our new site builder tool called SiteZen. This tools allows to you create your website using a simple What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get interface through your web browser. A demo of the software is available through SiteMagix, the creator of the tool [Demo]. For more information on how to set this tools up for use on your website, contact support@hardlines.com.

Trivia Bee for Whatcom Literacy Council

Hardlines competed in this years Trivia Bee and Silent Auction organized by and benefitting the Whatcom Literacy Council. The Council does great work in our county, and we are glad to support them. Hardlines donated one year of free webhosting and domain name registration for their Silent Auction. Hardlines also competed in the Trivia Bee. We were in the 3rd round with 7 other teams, and while the questions were difficult, we feel that we did ok. We ended up in 3rd place in our round. The event was won by the “Heavy Culture Reading Group”. Congratulations to all contestants who participated, as we helped to raise over $20,000 for the Whatcom Literacy Council.

Lots of changes coming

Here at Hardlines, we are working hard on many new system changes. There is a new version of ModernBill coming out, and we will be migrating all our existing customers into the new system. ModernBill provides some outstanding functionality, and I’m certain you will all be very pleased with it.