Since 1979 George Family Enterprises NorCal has served California by providing quality acoustical and decorative wall and ceiling systems. Working in earthquake prone areas such as California require us to stay up with the latest in safety and building codes. Staying up to date with all codes ensures that every ceiling grid they work on will never sway laterally during an earthquake. Older buildings with installations that are not up to current safety and building codes can lead to partial or total collapse of the ceiling grid during a severe tremor. If your current ceiling needs repair due to an earthquake or natural disaster then contact GFENC immediately!

George Family Enterprises NorCal is a licensed installer of Whisper Wall Acoustical & Tackable Fabric Wrapped Wall and Ceiling Panels. We are also a licensed installer of Newmat, a thermal vinyl stretched ceiling and wall system. GFENC employs some of the finest and most competent Union Carpenters and Lathers on the West Coast who specialize in the installation of Decorative and Ornamental Ceilings; Upholstered and Panelized Fabric Walls & Ceilings; Luminous Ceilings; Wood Ceiling & Wall Systems in addition to standard Acoustical Ceilings. George Family NorCal’s staff are seasoned professionals for all types of acoustical ceiling repair and are prepared to give you a competitive quote.

GFE NC’s team of highly skilled estimators and project managers can offer assistance with both product consultations and budget pricing to facilitate you in your selection of ceiling systems. They offer competitive pricing and can fulfill all your needs in every aspects of Acoustical Ceiling and Wall Systems. GFE’s installers strive to bring your project in under budget, on-time and accident free.

For more information about George Family Enterprises NorCal, and to view their online portfolio, visit their website at www.gfeinc.com.

At JVF Consulting, LLC we understand that positive word of mouth from our customers is an essential part of maintaining our reputation as a leader in professional website design and custom content management systems. By proactively listening and learning from our customers, JVF Consulting continues our commitment to customer excellence by delivering web design services of the highest industry standards.

Using customer testimonials in your advertising, marketing materials, and on your website is a common practice today. If your customers are saying great things about your business, then why not publicize those positive testimonials for the world to see?

Frequently, our customers will provide us with compelling testimony that validates the claims we make about our services. At JVF Consulting we authenticate our testimonials by using a picture of the customer along with their real name and the project we completed for them. In other words, we prove our customer testimonials are real up front so there is no room for doubt! Today we feel the need to share these testimonials with you. If you’re a new or potential customers, you should definitely read these testimonials, they will help with any skepticisms you have about us. Click here to read JVF Consulting’s testimonials.

“Protecting purses, shoes and fashion accessories is now easier with BellaCaché™, an innovative manufacturer of accessory dust covers.”

San Ramon, CA November 25, 2009 – Liz Boyd, President and Founder of BellaCaché™ announced themselves as a new player in the dust cover market. BellaCaché’s™ line expands on what the fashion world calls a purse dust cover. Available in three sizes, this unique product line protects and stores shoes, purses, tote bags, scarves, hats, boots, laptops, briefcases and any other accessory that needs added protection.

BellaCaché™ dust covers are 100% cotton which are essential for storing leather goods. Their unique identification tag makes it easy to identify the contents even when stacked high in a closet. BellaCaché™ covers can be stored horizontally or vertically on a closet shelf, stacked in a drawer, or put on hangers. The line’s color palette includes neutrals and rich jewel-tones which appeal to all of their customers.

“The possibilities for this product line are greater than anyone has previously envisioned; it’s for both men and women.”, says Liz Boyd, President of BellaCaché™. “The patented and trademarked design offers stylish protection for all your fashion investments.”

BellaCaché’s™ research found that more and more men and women are using the internet for their fashion shopping to find individual and unique products that they simply cannot find on the street. The strong demand for dust covers in the market today is not being satisfied. Research also found that it was not only difficult to find anything of quality, but also variety. The entire BellaCaché line is stylish, colorful, affordable, accessible, and with a unique identification tag, it sets itself apart from the rest. For more information visit the BellaCaché website www.bellacache.com.

About BellaCaché™:
BellaCaché™ was founded by Liz Boyd who was tired of digging through her closet trying to find one of her many purses, only to discover that when she finally found it, it was dusty and scratched! Puzzled to see there was currently no products available to protect these items, she developed her own! Known for her organizational skills she developed her unique identification tag which greatly increases the functionality. With a color palette that includes neutrals BellaCaché™ appeals to both men and women. Liz continues to explore the many uses of her product and encourages customers let her know how YOU use BellaCaché™ Dust Covers!

Contact:
Liz Boyd, President & Founder
BellaCaché™
(866) 817-0080
http://www.bellacache.com

“For more than 40 years John Hanna has invented over 35 products and holds three patents which have sold internationally. With his focus on value and functionality, every new invention created provides ultimate performance.”

Dublin, CA November 2, 2009 - Jason Franco, President of JVF Consulting, LLC announced the launch of a revolutionary website for The Hanna™ Landscape Grader Blade. This state-of-the-art tool made its first appearance at the 2009 National Hardware Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada and is based on the standard garden rake platform allowing the tool to fit on all rakes. The tool has many great uses and is considered to be one of the greatest inventions since the rake itself.

The Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. website was designed and built in the USA just like the Landscape Grader Blade itself. Constructed with .php the website loads smooth and fast across every platform.

“We were determined to create a website that showcases the tool to the highest possible caliber.” said Jason Franco, President of JVF Consulting, LLC. “With a little hands on approach, we had what we needed to build the best website for the best tool in the business.”

Dedicated to manufacturing high quality state-of-the-art products with outstanding value, Hanna’s reputation is unrivaled.

Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. is dedicated to manufacturing high quality state-of-the-art products with outstanding value. High standards is what their customers have come to expect from the Hanna™ organization, and that is what the will continue to get. Hanna™ is an environmentally safe company which makes their labels from recycled materials.

The new Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. website is powered and designed by the leader in custom website design, JVF Consulting, LLC. The Landscape Grader Blade website can be found at www.hannaproductsmfg.com.

About Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc.:
Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. is the inventor and manufacturer of the Hanna™ Landscape Grader Blade. Every product they invent displays master craftsmanship. You can be confident that when you choose any of the Hanna™ products, it will become a trusted and reliable companion for many years to come. Hanna™ appreciates this trust and is committed to providing functionality and a great pride of ownership to their entire product line. The Hanna™ facility is located in Livermore, California, where the Landscape Grader Blade is manufactured and shipped throughout the United States and Canada.

Contact:
Jason Franco, President
JVF Consulting, LLC
925-479-9768
http://www.jvfconsulting.com

Don’t let your SSL certificate expire without your knowing! Make sure it is up to date so you don’t lose out on any sales! If your certificate is set to auto renew, be sure you have the correct steps ready to install the new certificate to your server. We have heard about many websites who lose out on valuable online holiday shopping due to an expired ssl certificate, or just lacking one completely. If you’re unfamiliar with SSL certificates, and currently maintain an eCommerce website, this article is for you.

An SSL certificate allows you to do secure credit card transactions on the internet. If you don’t have one, people won’t shop with you because they’ll get a bunch of warnings that the site is not secure when they attempt to pay with their credit card.

Here are a few indicators to let people know that you are safe to do business with online.

1. Make sure that your URL is actually https://www.yourdomain.com. When someone see that “https” they know that is the first line of defense.
2. Next, check to see if there is a “lock” icon in the bottom right or top corner of your browser. This informs the visitor that there is a valid certificate on the page to protect them.

If your eCommerce website is not properly secured, then your customers are at risk for identity theft. If you need help with your website, be sure to call the experts here at JVF Consulting.

Would you like to have total control of your website and its content without the use of a webmaster? How about the freedom to update your website how you want, when you want? If you think this sounds to go to be true, then you haven’t discovered the best content management system on the market today, JVF Amass CMS. With our CMS software you can make live edits to your website with only a few clicks of a mouse. Our content management system requires no technical skill or html knowledge to run! If you can browse the web, then you can customize your website!

JVF Consulting specializes in customizing your current website design with a 128-bit password protected dashboard which controls every aspect of your website. Since our content management system is web based, no special software is needed. Amass can easily be accessed by anywhere in the world with an internet connection. With little training, you will be editing and making changes to your website in no time. By empowering our clients to control their message without the use of a webmaster, we have become the leader in CMS.

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is feature Amass has mastered. As you can see in the screenshots below, you can easily change the metatags for every page within your website with a click of a mouse. These metatags include title tag, keywords, and description. If you have added or removed any of your featured pages, create a Google friendly xml sitemap with the Amass sitemap generator. Sitemap updates guarantee that your pages are crawled and indexed by all the major search engines. The final result is higher page rank which will keep your site at the top of all search engine results.

Since JVF Consulting designed and built the Amass Content Management System, we provide 24/7 support and responsibility. Amass CMS is based on PHP and PostgreSQL, which makes the final product fast and powerful. With Amass we will ensure your business is successful and designed to grow with your organization. With the most powerful and reliable software at your fingertips, success is now within reach!

Below is a video demonstrating the power of JVF Amass CMS. To see more video demonstrations check out our YouTube channel or view us on Vimeo!

SlideShowPro Picture Integration: Amass Content Management System from JVF Consulting on Vimeo.

“Award winning San Francisco Bay Area photographer Peter Bruce provides fine portrait style and fashion style wedding photography with photojournalistic professionalism.”

Dublin, CA October 9, 2009 - Jason Franco, President of JVF Consulting, LLC announced the launch of Peter Bruce Wedding Photography, an innovative and elegant website focused on the work of Peter Bruce.

Born in Australia, Peter spent much of his life traveling the globe. He’s a seasoned professional, experienced in many styles of photography. Peter’s job is to capture the beauty of your celebration without interfering. Peter is a helpful presence, and will treat your wedding as something that’s as unique as you are.

Peter prefers to shoot weddings using film. He understands the importance of having a digital file, so he first shoots on film, then scans the negatives and supplies you with everything! The prints, negatives, and unlocked DVDs are yours to use however you wish. His approach to wedding photography is pure and captures your wedding day discreetly with a sense of wonder.

“Capturing the true essence and beauty of your wedding through photographs enables you to tell a story and keep it alive forever.” stated Jason Franco, President of JVF Consulting, LLC. “With the power of Amass Content Management System Peter Bruce Wedding Photography can make live revisions to his custom website all through a rich user-friendly interface.”

Everyone knows that a wedding is a complex process that encompasses many lives. Hiring a professional photographer to immortalize all the beautiful memories that you will be creating on your special day is an aspect you should definitely not overlook. If you are getting married in the San Francisco Bay Area, you should know that there is a wide range of photography services that you can choose from. The importance of having an experienced photographer at your wedding could not be stressed enough. Making an informed choice will allow you to create a state of the art wedding album that will help you reminisce about those wonderful times for the rest of your life.

At the Peter Bruce Wedding Photography website you can visualize samples of his previous work in order to better understand the quality of his services. By hiring Peter Bruce you will create and immortalize wonderful memories that you can reminisce about for many years to come.

About Peter Bruce:
Peter Bruce Wedding Photography serves the entire San Francisco Bay Area for wedding photography and videography. Everything from your wedding day and engagement poses, to the best man’s toast, you will get the best of both worlds in both film and digital. Peter and his wife Kathleen live in San Francisco with their daughters Sophia, Charly, and a big happy dog named Dude. Peter has worked with several charities over the years, including Smile Train, F.I.R.E., and Dulaan projects (providing clothing for homeless children).

Contact:
Jason Franco, President
JVF Consulting, LLC
925-479-9768
http://www.jvfconsulting.com
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“John Hanna is proud of his heritage. Every product he invents displays master craftsmanship. You can be confident that when you choose any of the Hanna™ products, it will become a trusted and reliable companion for many years to come. Hanna™ products are committed to providing functionality and a great pride of ownership to their entire product line.”

Dublin, CA October 9, 2009 - John Hanna, CEO of Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. has announced the introduction of a new consumer product that is “innovative, revolutionary and different”. The Hanna™ Landscape Grader Blade made its first appearance at the 2009 National Hardware Trade Show in Las Vegas, Nevada. The state-of-the-art, precision made blade is built in the USA and is currently patent pending with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The Landscape Grader Blade is available now for shipment in the US and Canadian market.

The Hanna™ Landscape Grader Blade is based on the standard garden rake platform allowing the tool to fit on all rakes. The tool has many great uses and is considered to be one of the greatest inventions since the rake itself. Quickly and easily converts any garden rake into a grader for leveling and spreading. The blade makes all those awkward jobs easier and faster to do. From family vegetable gardens, to landscaping your yard, the grader blade requires limited bending or lifting which saves your back, heart, and legs. Carpenters use it to clean debris from newly constructed homes and buildings, farmers use it for their barns, corrals, and general clean up. Even plumbers, electricians, and sprinkler companies have adopted this universal tool to backfill trenches and cleanup job sites with ease. The grader blade has infinite uses.

Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. uses only eco friendly materials when making their product. The powder coating is strictly recycled plastic while the label material also comes from 100% recycled material.

Fueling speculation about their new product, John Hanna said “Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. is clearly leading the way with this extremely versatile and durable product. We feel the tool will enable its users to complete tasks that once required special equipment or heavy machinery.” Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. strives to stay at the forefront of today’s technology with their precision tool.

About Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc.:
Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. are the inventor and manufacturers of the Hanna™ Landscape Grader Blade.  Seven years in development and design, John E. Hanna is the inventor who designed the tool. Once the Landscape Grader Blade was refined, John teamed up with Magdaline T. Ulrich to form Hanna™ Products Mfg., Inc. Their facility is located in Livermore, California, where they manufacture and ship the grader blade throughout the United States and Canada.

Contact:
Jason Franco, President
JVF Consulting, LLC
925-479-9768
http://www.jvfconsulting.com
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From time to time we help friends and family with their troublesome computers. This past month I had the privilege of working on two HP Pavilion laptops that had the same reoccurring annoyance. The annoyance happens on the Windows XP operating system right after system startup. After the computer finishes loading, a box in the taskbar located in the bottom right hand corner displays an annoying message saying “You are running out of disk space on HP_RECOVERY (E:)”

Normally you would access the drive and remove any unwanted files, but the purpose of the recovery drive is to store all the files needed to do an emergency recovery when the system become unstable. The recovery drive is actually a partition on the main hard drive in your computer, not an actual physical drive. It has much less available space than Drive (C:). The only files on the Recovery drive should be related to a system recovery and for some reason reads as full. When it gets full there is only one sure way to fix it, by changing the registry settings. To do this follow the instructions below. Once changed, reboot your computer and you will notice the annoyance is now fixed!

The windows registry controls this annoyance, to fix it follow these simple steps.

1. Click START–>RUN and type REGEDIT. Click OK.

2. Click the plus sign next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
then SOFTWARE
then Microsoft
then Windows
then CurrentVersion
then Policies
then Explorer

HKEY CURRENT USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

3. Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks if it exists. If it doesn’t, right-click on ADVANCED and Select NEW–>DWORD VALUE and name it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks

4. Set this value to 1 to disable the low disk space warning message.

5. Save and close the Windows registry.

6. Reboot

“This year, we mark the 20th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. The events of October 17, 1989 are forever scarred into the lives of our community. Through The Big Rumble we have the opportunity to reinvigorate our commitment to being prepared for any type of hazard.”

Dublin, CA October 5, 2009 - JVF Consulting, LLC is proud to announce The Big Rumble custom website redesign is online and accessible on the World Wide Web. Mayor Gavin Newsom and the city of San Francisco plans to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake through a series of events called The Big Rumble.

The Big Rumble website now features a community calendar of events, recent news, and a countdown clock to the anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake. By having the event information available online it allows for everyone to come together as a community to learn more about how we can better prepare for all types of emergencies.

“The Big Rumble is a stark reminder of our vulnerability to natural disasters. Allowing to become better prepared for emergencies will require powerful and accurate tools that can be quickly updated through a content management system.” stated Jason Franco, President of JVF Consulting, LLC. “With the power of Amass CMS The Big Rumble can make revisions to their custom website on the fly all through a rich user-friendly web 2.0 interface.”

The new Big Rumble website is powered by the cutting edge technology of JVF Amass, the best Content Management System on the market today, and designed by the leader in custom website design, JVF Consulting, LLC. The Big Rumble website can be found at www.thebigrumble.org.

The Big Rumble website provides links to resources and tools that can help you to talk, share, learn, organize, practice, support, serve and ultimately prepare together so that we can recover, rebuild and thrive after any type of disaster.

On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Bay Area. It was the largest earthquake on the San Andreas fault since the great San Francisco earthquake in April 1906. The earthquake, also known as the “World Series Quake,” caused 63 deaths, 3,757 injuries, and an estimated $6-10 billion in property loss. It caused severe damage as far as 70 miles away from its epicenter; most notably in San Francisco, Oakland, and the San Francisco Peninsula. On the 20th anniversary of the most significant disaster in our recent history, we come together as a community to remember those who lost their lives, comfort those who lost their loved ones, and honor those who emerged as heroes on that day. At the same time, this commemoration provides an opportunity to reinvigorate our commitment to making emergency preparedness an everyday part of our lives.

About The Big Rumble:
The Big Rumble is a website resource and a week-long series of special events designed to connect our communities with preparedness resources. Committed 2 Community is honored to have been able to partner with the agencies of the City and County of San Francisco and its community partners to pilot The Big Rumble in its inaugural year.  City departments with a major role in coordinating the events include the Department of Emergency Management, Department of Public Health, San Francisco Fire Department, and the Office of the City Administrator.

Contact:
Jason Franco, President
JVF Consulting, LLC
925-479-9768
http://www.jvfconsulting.com
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