We have recently picked up some additional work which has us looking for some part time labours.

Are you keen for some part time work and good with hand tools in general?

You need to be strong, energetic and willing to work, ensuring the job gets done according to the program of the day.

Tools are not essential, although it is possible that other work may come up down the track, whereby having your own tools would be to your advantage.

If you are interested then contact us today.

We will send more details shortly thereafter.

YAHOOooo!!!

Finally trademe has reconsidered and relaxed their banned and restricted items list. This allows us to list most of our products.

We currently have 40+ items listed. Brands included are; Artemis, NFS, Madura, Weleda, Musashi, Ear Candles by Choice and Expose.

Apparently, everything except for Folic Acid and or Weight Management products can be listed.

Hopefully there are no products removed down the track.

To find us on trademe simply click here or search member "DoubleDworks".

It has been a while since our last post here.

As you may already be aware, we are running a giveaway for the first fifty fans to join us on Facebook.

Become a fan to be in the draw. The winner will receive a Daily Essential Multi NFS-N4665-30.

Additionally you can also follow us on Twitter. We find that it is better than Facebook in a lot of respects however this will not qualify you for the giveaway.

We also want to use Google Buzz and probably will in due course.

Come on, join up and stay connected. Message us anytime.

This post is for those who could not access our sites yesterday between 8:36pm and 9:14pm.

During this period we experienced a server failure which ultimately affected all of our web sites.

This outage was due to a fault with our host provider.

All of our sites are now active and we do not expect any further issues to arise from this particular issue.

The Double D Works Team are currently offering a 30 pack of NFS Multi Daily Essentials to one of the first fifty facebook members that become a fan of Double D Works Ltd.

The NFS range in our view has by far the best overall high quality solutions for almost, if not all situations, without question. Double D Works Ltd strive for "results that provide balance" for both us personally and our clients alike.

Only the best products at even better prices are considered. Check out the solutions we can provide at 20% below the Recommended Retail Price.

If you require any assistance, be sure to contact us by Live Help, Chat, email or phone.

Click here to join as one of our facebook fans.

As we move forward in 2010, it is important to note that our sites undergo regular upgrades. When it comes to most of our sites, upgrading is very simple and seamlessly integrated with near zero down time.

However when it comes to DoubleDproducts.co.nz this process is much more involved. We are currently waiting on database management software, allowing for the merging of data and schema within mySQL (A date can not be confirmed at this time. We will revisit this in due course, as we obtain relative information).

It is not important that you understand what any of that means, only the fact that until we obtain such software, said site will be off line for days as opposed to hours or minutes during such upgrades.

Updating websites like DoubleDproducts.co.nz is critical to maintaining its existence, not to mention all entered data, such as orders, user names etc, etc.

Upgrades to DoubleDproducts.co.nz will generally take place over the weekend. Upgrades will probably commence either late on Friday night or early on Saturday morning, but not every week.

As far as order processing and the Couriers are concerned, having the site off line after 5pm on Friday and back on line by Sunday night will be the least disruptive and will not affect nor lengthen the shipping time frames or notifications in any way, as we do not currently offer Saturday deliveries via our shipping agent and we presently notify of shipping status changes via PayPal.

We feel that paying a Saturday delivery charge only adds an additional fee that most would rather avoid, opting rather to place their orders ahead of time, allowing plenty of room for receiving any such Item(s) prior to them be required (as a regular shopper).

There is only about 24 hours left now until the DoubleDproducts.co.nz shopping cart goes live.

At DoubleDproducts.co.nz almost all our products are marked down 20% below the RRP.

The shipping charges are calculated on a varying basis. Please be sure to select the correct shipping option. The options are pretty straight forward. There is an option for Rural and Urban, an International and Pickup only, plus a Free Domestic shipping option for orders over $250.

As promised, the companion products link have been updated and tested. They will work correctly after we release the coming updates.

Furthermore the images displayed on the right side of DoubleDworks.co.nz have been redirected from email to the relevant area of DoubleDproducts.co.nz.

It has come to our attention that the NFS Companion Products links over at DoubleDproducts.co.nz are defaulting to our original "Catalog" therefore over the following few days this will be corrected.

These changes are only minor and will be introduced on or by the 5th of January 2010, which is when we activate the shopping cart.

The Double D Works Team look forward to continue providing both quality products and services to all of our clients, whether large or a little, new or existing.

It's not long until you will be able to buy our advertised Item(s) directly via the DoubleDproducts.co.nz shopping cart. The checkout uses PayPal. PayPal are a very secure, tried and tested, long standing merchant account provider.

PayPal aren't the cheapest providers however we value your custom and privacy, therefore we opt to pay more than their competitors, so you can have piece of mind during such purchases.

The Team at Double D Works Ltd decided that there was no point in activating the DoubleDproducts.co.nz shopping cart prior to Christmas day, as we were previously considering.

We believe that it is important to wait until the majority of our suppliers return to work, in order to ensure less waiting time, should we require products in excess of our current stock levels.

Double D Works Ltd look forward to your custom in 2010 and for many years to follow.

Double D Works Ltd wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope that 2010 brings many rewarding experiences for all to enjoy.

The team at Double D Works Ltd are off to lunch at Bracu in the Bombays today, to celebrate the end of a great first year in business, as we look forward to many more to come.

Please drive safe, rest regularly on long trips and generally take care out there. The team at Double D Works Ltd look forward to seeing you all next year.

Over the last week or two we have been working on formulating the freighting calculations. We believe that the arrived figures should be adequate to allow on average the funds required to cover the cost of shipping, whether transporting near or far.

We will be monitoring the costs of shipping. As time goes on we may make changes to the freighting formulas, if we find on average that they are either consistently too high and or low.

Over the next week or two we will continue to test the sites settings. We will also be loading a few more banners into our code rotator.

Keep your eyes open for the shopping cart open day. It is coming very soon.

We have recently introduced a Banner Rotator to the bottom of the pages within DoubleDproducts.co.nz to bring the sites advertising potential into line with our others.

We also added Musashi Bulk Protein Bars, as they fit with our policy on quality and taste.

The next stage of DoubleDproducts.co.nz to be completed is the freight management system. We will be looking into a few options and will decide on the best way to structure it over the coming weeks.

Following the completion of the freighting system we expect to activate the shopping cart features in conjunction with our merchant account.

From that point on DoubleDproducts.co.nz will be open for business.

As published in the New Zealand Herald on Monday 16th November 2009.

Tanner Ronald Ian. (Regtl No 282850, 27 Machine Gun Infantry Battalion 2nd NZEF WWII).

Passed away early Saturday 14 November 2009 at the North Shore Hospital surrounded by his loving family, aged 89 years.

He will be sadly missed by his wife Remy, children Kathy, Maxien, Ronda, Twyla and Dale, soninlaws Martin and Gary, grandchildren and partners, Craig and Kelly, Garth and Ivana, Dawson and Vanessa, Nathan and Keri, Daniel, Matthew and great grandchildren Jake, Gemma, Ebony, Harley, Joel, Codee, Amber and Malia.

Ron will remain at his home 40 Elan Pl, Whangaparaoa (in an open casket) from 4pm Sunday 15 November until 6pm Monday 16 November 2009. All are welcome to visit and support family during these times.

A service for Ron will be held at the Silverdale RSA, 43a Vipond Rd, Whangaparaoa at 10am on Tuesday 17 November. This will be followed by a social gathering in remembrance of his wonderful and exciting life.

Ron will subsequently be cremated at Schnapper Rock Cemetery with a small service attended by his family members.

A special thank you is extended from the family to all the nursing staff and caregivers who treated Ron with dignity and kindness during the last weeks and hours.

Family request that instead of flowers, please make donations to The Ostomate Society, ( North Shore) and Child Cancer Society. FDANZ

We have now updated the catalogue links throughout our sites. If you find any links that we missed updating etc - please advise "admin".

While carrying out those aliases updates we discovered a few more that require altering for various reasons. This will be carried out in the next few days, as we load a few additional products into the site.

Once DoubleDproducts.co.nz is fully operational we will update the images on the right hand side of DoubleDworks.co.nz and point them directly to the products themselves, as opposed to the email order/enquiry option at present.

The DoubleDproducts.co.nz catalogue links are currently being updated to "catalogue" from "catalog". We feel that we had better make this change throughout our sites and prior to the DoubleDproducts.co.nz cart going live.

In doing so, it is inevitable that these new page references will take some time to update and re-index with the search engines and therefore the site links here and over at DoubleDproducts.co.nz may not work over the next 24 hrs, as they are updated. Depending on when the engine, indexing may take thirty days or more. We would expect to see all search engines updated in the next four five days.

At around the same time we plan on activating the DoubleDproducts.co.nz cart features, so the site is ready for Christmas. If for any reason we are not satisfied with some aspect of the DoubleDproducts.co.nz functionality etc, we would likely postpone activation until January 2011 at the latest and kick off in the next year as early as possible.

Double D Works Ltd is happy to announce that we can now provide "Live Help" on all of our web sites. The live help system allows new and or existing customers to be merely minutes from any help they require. We hope in doing so that this creates further confidence in our organisation, as we move towards being a great provider of products and services.

As of this week we have also introduced a chat system. You may log in and use it by visiting the chat link at the bottom of each page. As time goes by we will introduce additional permanent rooms. Presently there is a "General Chat", a "Social Network" and a "Support" room.

Note that users chatting in "support;" are logged into our web site(s) live help "Support Centre" and therefore these users may not appear in the "Support" room. Users in the Support room will show as chatting in "Support".

As a member you may create and run your own public, private and or moderated room. Users that show both interest and potential may be considered for moderation purposes etc as time goes on.

This chat software is a step towards running an additional site centred around a blog system similar to social networks like FaceBook and or Twitter etc. Feel free to discuss aspects you find important in a Social Network site in the "Social Network" room and or the possibility of such being used with "admin".

In the future the blog will run from DoubleDworks.co.nz only. All of the posts below were transfered from DoubleDproducts.co.nz

You may notice that we have added a number of additional products. The remaining products will be added over the following month or so.

Google Analytics has also be added to our sites. This will help us improve our sites search engine ranking. If you haven't seen the latest site changes at either DoubleDworks.co.nz and DoubleDservices.co.nz plus EarCandlesByChoice.co.nz (which is my personal favorite), check them out if you haven't already.

We also have plans to add a banner rotator to the sites listed above and possibly one or two others. This will likely take place some time in the following month or so as well.

The attributes have been altered to enable a check box option, along with providing a better layout during checkout etc. This change also allows for an additional product reference for your convenience.

The catalogue has also been changed to provide a grid view, which at the end of the day allows you to purchase items with less required mouse clicks and in turn this will create a more efficient shopping experience.

As the launch nears, we continue to add products and tweak the site with the shopper as the main force behind it.

We introduce EarCandlesByChoice.co.nz which is the latest Double D Works Ltd site to be released. It has a functional payment gateway. You can either purchase 1, 3 or 5 pairs of ear candles directly to use or pass onto family and friends etc.

Changes have also been made to DoubleDworks.co.nz and DoubleDservices.co.nz over the last few weeks. These sites will continue to to developed as required.

Work on DoubleDproducts.co.nz is now recommencing after being put on hold. This was due to the ducting contract mentioned below running over time and requiring many additional hours and as a result this has seriously cut into development time of DoubleDproducts.co.nz. Now that the contract has concluded, time can be devoted to further development, which has been a long time coming. DoubleDproducts.co.nz is however still close to on schedule according to our scheduled target dates.