Sofie Estolloso Hofmann Designs International

THE FACT AND THE TRUTH: I did not design the website of a certain fund company.

For some time now, since December 2006, I have been getting emails through my contact form asking me about a certain fund company. These people were always asking me if I designed the website of that fund company. Until now, I still get these emails even if the website of that fund company is no longer active in the internet.

For once and for all, I would like to inform all of you that I did not design the website of ***fund.*** and other websites connected or associated to it. I am not mentioning the website because I really do not want to promote that website at my site and at my blog.

Actually, at first, I just ignored the emails because I knew that I did not design the website. I thought that the emails were just another kind of spams. But I kept getting more and more, so I checked the site, and voila, I saw a name similar to mine, just when I was still single. I checked if there’s really another one who has the same name as mine when I was still not married, but the search results were just my site and the site of that fund company.

Knowing that, I immediately put a notice in my contact form that I did not design the website of that company. I just can’t understand why people kept on writing me even if I already put a notice above the contact form that I did not design the website of the company.

So, today, I again put a note inside the form itself, maybe this time people will finally get it that I did not design the website of the company. I am not at all connected with the company. I don’t know those people behind the company.

A lot of people have written me, I answered some of them and the others who were somewhat like demanding, I just ignored them. I feel like I have no obligation to answer them since I am not at all associated with the company.

I did not report the website but I guess those who have read my notice and those who wrote me that I answered have organized themselves and reported the website. If you try to access the site now, it’s no longer accessible. They tried to transfer, but it’s also gone now.

A few questions though to those who invested with that fund company.

1. Why were you investing in the first place, if you haven’t even met the person who founded the company? The company was just founded November 2007 and you already trusted your money to them.

2. Why were you believing them that you can have 200% ROI or Return on Investment? What a crap! Didn’t you ask any dignified legal financial consultant or a bank for example if it’s possible.

3. Why were you investing if you haven’t even checked if the company is a valid company? The company that they mentioned is not at all the same with the company they tried to copy. You should have checked with the original company if it’s really part of the company at all.

4. Why were you not checking the names they mentioned at the website if they’re valid names before you invested? You checked my name because you saw my name there, that’s fine, if indeed it was me that they were referring to. You assumed that it was me who designed it. The problem was, you kept on writing me even if I already put a notice at the contact form that I did not design the website.

5. Why were you not checking my DESIGNS page before you wrote me? Did you ever see that company among the list of the websites that I designed? No! Not at all! Even if you explore my other sites, you’ll never see that website.

Anyway, once again, I repeat, I did not design the website of that fund company.

Now, that the site is not accessible, people are just assuming that I designed it. Now, they’re asking me what happened to the site of the company. If you are going to ask me what happened to the website of that fund company, my answer is, I don’t know. I repeat, I did not design its website and I am not at all connected with the company, and so, I can’t answer any of your questions. So please, have some consideration, don’t ask me anymore about it.

To conclude this, congatulations to those who put them out of business in the net but one way or the other, they can always transfer from one site to another, from one server to another. Even if they’re not in the internet they can still talk to people. I just hope that the authorities will be able to catch them. They’re destroying people including me. I am trying to earn an honest living and they destroyed my web design business.

I finished upgrading the sites using WordPress from WordPress 2.0.7 to WordPress 2.1. Upgrading a WordPress site is not that complicated. What makes the site complicated when being upgraded? If some tags were deprecated, some features were removed or transferred, and if the Plugins, if you have any, aren’t compatible with WordPress 2.1 Ella.

There were no major problems with SofieHofmann.com Blog as it is a blog. I just have to check my blog entries for XHTML validation. I corrected a little bit at CSS file as my images are always centered but the text are always justified. All of a sudden, the centered text were adjusted to the left. They’re ok now.

With Sehdi.com, I had to redo the conditional tags because of the feature that a static page can be assigned to the front page. I did both the code for a static page as well as for the latest posts, so even if I switch from one to another, the pages won’t break and won’t be affected at all. No matter what, I can assign a static page or the latest blog posts anytime to the front page. I haven’t use this feature with other sites yet. One thing though, the quicktag <!--more--> doesn’t work but the quicktag <!--nextpage--> works. I still have to figure out the solution to the <!--more--> quicktag.

With Weggis.net, I needed to remove some conditional tags at the archives, having the articles after each topic. Sometimes they appear, sometimes not. Instead, I changed the number of articles at the individual archives. So if you check each topic archive, all the titles of the articles are there aside from the latest one on top of all the other ones.

With Pagtatap.org, there’s not a lot of problems, as it was just newly redesigned.

With Pandan.gov.ph News, it was just like Sofiehofmann.com Blog. I just fixed the CSS because of the floating images to the right, and XHTML for validation.

With Pandan.ph, I have more problems with one of the Plugins. I’m using a Paged Comments Plugin in this site and it was not working with PHP include <?php include (file.php); ?> unless you put the TEMPLATE PATH before file.php. I also have Paged Comments Plugin at Pagtatap.org but this problem didn’t occur there as I was not using too much page templates unlike with Pandan.ph. Anyway, I was able to fix everything.

For all the other sites, I needed to change the deprecated template tags, wp_list_cats to wp_list_categories and get_archives to wp_get_archives. Actually, as of the moment, even if you didn’t change them, they will stay the same, won’t really affect the site.

Regarding the links being part of categories now, if you have get_link_list and opted to check show description, it’s not working now. That option was removed from the admin side, and so, I replaced get_link_list with wp_list_bookmarks.

I’ve written something about a Plugin. What about other WordPress Plugins?

I don’t use too many WordPress Plugins. So far, I have these Plugins but not in all the sites.

Akismet Plugin by Matt Mullenweg, WP-PostViews by GaMerZ, Post Updated by Kaf Oseo, Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam by Peter Keung, Sidebar Widgets by Automattic, Simple Recent Comments Widget by Mika Perälä, randomimage by Justin Watt, Filosofo Home-Page Control by Austin Matzko. No problem with all these WordPress Plugins.

SRG Clean Archives Plugin by Shawn Grimes. I have to fix the post_status='publish' to post_type='post' as I don’t want the pages to be part of the monthly archives.

Paged Comments Plugin by Keyvan Minoukadeh. I already mentioned about the Paged Comments Plugin and fixed the problem.

Counterize II Plugin by Steffen Forkmann. I deactivated this Plugin except at Sehdi.com and SofieHofmann.com Blog even before upgrading to WordPress 2.1. It’s in conflict with the Google Search that I’m using. I couldn’t fix it yet. I’m always getting a message above the page referring to the database. But if I just use the normal WordPress search, no problem at all.

WordPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax. Check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1]
update wp_Counterize_Pages set count = count + 1 where pageID =

Everytime I activate the Plugin and test google site and web search, the message above appears and another one and another one. I haven’t asked the author of the Plugin yet about this, hoping that I will solve it myself. But since I’m not a MySQL guru, I still have to figure it out. As I see it, I think the solution is just simple and it’s just there but I haven’t really figured that out yet.

WordPress Database Backup Plugin by Scott Merrill. I never really used WordPress Database Backup as I backup my database from the phpMyAdmin itself. I just tested it and eventually deactivated again in the other sites. No matter how I changed the File Permission of wp-content, it’s just not working in other sites. It’s not creating index.php at the backup folder and so I couldn’t backup my database. So as not to put the security of wp-content in danger, I just deactivated the Plugin except at the 2 of all the 6 sites.

Well, that’s all for today. Other than what I have mentioned above, everything is ok. All the sites are fine and running without any problems. Thanks to WordPress Team! Thanks to WordPress Plugins authors!