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Monthly Archives: July 2009

The Bell Tower on W34th is coming soon!

The Bell Tower on w34th

The Bell Tower on w34th

A few days ago I made a short post about the New Bell Tower on w34th street. Today I decided to see if I could fin a website or anything else where I could post some information about the venue. I imagine if they attended the Houston Bridal Extravaganza Show in July, they would more than likely have a website up and running, and they sure do.

First place I found them was in Bride.com and after that it lead me to their actual Bell Tower on w34th Street website where they just have a flyer letting people know they will be open for business soon.

If you want to get a much better idea of what the place actually looks like and how beautiful it is inside… visit their ad on Bride.com.

Happy Planning!

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|o| Simply Frank |o|
Professional DJ in Houston

Finally a Weekend off With the Family

This year has been a very different year for me. Despite taking off the first month and a half, January and February, I’ve been seen a huge rise in inquiries coming through my website.

I don’t advertise in any magazine or publication, I do have an ad in the Knot.com, but all my web traffic comes from either Google.com, Yahoo.com, or the new Bing.com. I haven’t paid for printed advertising in over a year, I’ve stopped attending the Houston Bridal Extravaganza Show, and have really not spent any money in advertising for a while now.

I continue t0 advertise with the Knot.com, one because they did not listen to my request to cancel my subscription, and two because their advertising is actually working to drive approximately 30 visitors to my site per month.

Despite the economy being so bad and Me taking a whole month and a half off to do some much needed home remodeling/upgrades, I would say business is doing better than last year.

I’ve been completely booked all year since Valentine’s day and if it wasn’t for a cancellation this past Saturday, I would have had to celebrate my daughter’s birthday on a Sunday.

So this weekend was very relaxing at home with the family and invited some friends to come over and celebrate my oldest daughter’s 6th birthday.  Would you believe it? No loud music was involved. :)

We had a blast! We rented out one of those water slide moonwalks and all the kids loved it. They did not stop playing in it the entire time we had it rented. Since they arrived early, even I was able to jump in there and have some fun with my two girls! Those times are so few in my life that I was able to really take them in and be grateful to God for such beautiful girls and for such an opportunity to be able to spend a Saturday with the people whom we love.

This Friday and Saturday, it’s back to weddings. I have two weddings, back to back and I look foreword to entertaining and creating beautiful smiles on the guests of my clients!

Happy Planning!

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|o| Simply Frank |o|
Professional Houston DJ

Bridal Wedding Website Reviews

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Bridal Wedding Website Background

As many of you already know, I provide websites for my brides. I can set up their entire website, host it, and provide for them a administration panel where they can do just about anything to their website from adding pictures, adding pages, taking RSVP’s (VERY POPULAR), to taking song requests, to just having a place to hang out and have all the necessary information for your friends and family about your wedding. You can even password protect your personal pages such as the driving directions to your event and any other personal data that you want to keep private.

Popular Wedding Website Templates

Now since most brides that read this blog do not hire me for my services, but rather use this blog for getting some tips and secrets about the entertainment in their website, I have found some great Flash and Non-Flash Website templates that you can buy for about $60 and have a very beautiful and professional website up and running in no time. These templates were selected because ANYONE can easily buy it and implement it into their wedding website.

As a matter of fact MOST wedding vendors buy their web template from the same site I am about to point you to.

The website is, Template Monster, and they have a dedicated staff releasing high quality easy to use websites so cheap, that it really makes no sense for anyone to hire a graphic designer to build a website, that is, unless you want customization and personalization.

Here are my top 5 picks on Flash enabled Websites that seem so easy to integrate and require very little modification and look so professional that anyone could easily integrate as their main wedding website.

Click on images to go to their Template Monster Site

1. Website Website Template #22069

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2. Website Website Template #17127 (WITH SOUND)

Very Plain and Basic but still easy to implement and beautiful transitions, hidden menu bar at the bottom (very  annoying though)

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3. Website Website Template #23873

(You can add your own pictures and the transitions are great)

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4. Website Website Template #23873

(You can add your own pictures and the transitions are great)

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5. Website Website Template #24318

(You can add your own pictures and the transitions are great)

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6. (BONUS) Website Website Template #24841

(You can add your own pictures and the transitions are great)

Get you a very affordable website template, tweek it, add a few pictures and have yourself a great looking wedding website.

Happy Planning!

|o| Simply Frank |o|
Professional Wedding DJ in Houston

Gobo Design in Houston

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About Gobo Design

Gobo Design is something that we recently started doing along with Gobo Rental. Gobo Design can be as easy as taking you monogram from you cake topper or you napkins and replicating the design into a Gobo, or a small metal that goes into the Gobo Projector.

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About the Gobo Projector

A Gobo Projector is a specialized light that is used in theaters and more recently at weddings and corporate functions. The light, also known as a Leko, has a special slot cut into the light where you can stick your metal Gobo Design and it can project the image into a wall or the dance floor.

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Gobo Design Pricing

Although, we really don’t charge our clients for the actual Gobo Design, we usually decide to give the design as a thank you for selecting our services. A lot of the time, they already have a Gobo design that they can use. As mentioned above, you can just take the monogram and use it for your Gobo Design. To rent our Gobo Projector and our Gobo with the design already etched into it,  visit our Gobo Monogram design Rental Section of our DJ website.

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Custom Gobo Design Pictures and Examples

Below are a few of our recent Gobo Designs and Examples.

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