Make custom vinyl lettering, decals, bumper stickers, static clings, and magnetic signs up to 6 feet long !

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About Us...

Mesa Vista Press / AutoLettering.com is a small, family-style business that looks forward to making you our next happy customer! We've been on the Web since 1999, are located in Joshua Tree, California, and we're fanatical about giving great customer service. If you're happy, we're happy!

The owner, Ken Rubin, has also done the work of building this Web site, including the layout and programming, all designed (hopefully!) to make it fast and easy for you to create your own custom cut-vinyl signs and stickers. If you have any questions, please use the Contact Page, and he will answer your e-mail personally. What follows below is some geeky, technical stuff, including links to various tools that have helped make this site possible.

About this Web site...

From the Owner / Webmaster of AutoLettering.com...

Since 1995, I have dealt with a number of Web Hosting Services. A few were good, and some were horrible, including one that, without warning, sold all their accounts and could never be contacted. Since AutoLettering.com is an interactive site that, among other things, creates .png images on-the-fly based on our customer's specifications entered in our Design Center, I wanted a state-of-the-art L.A.M.P. (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) Hosting Service.

In June of 2006, I discovered A2 Hosting, and ever since they've been providing us with real 99.9% uptime and great customer service... which I'm very big on! A2 Hosting also employs "Green Hosting" measures, such as Carbon Offsets and Eco Protection Practices. They offer Shared, Reseller, VPS, and Managed Dedicated Server plans. I'm a paid affiliate for A2Hosting but I wouldn't be if I didn't actually use, and believe in, their hosting service.

When you have a site, besides having a robots.txt file in your root directory, you also want to have a sitemap.xml file. This allows search engines such as Google, Yahoo!, Ask, and Bing to crawl your site more intelligently. A robots.txt file is easy to make, but for our sitemap.xml file, I let xml-sitemaps.com make ours, instantly. At the same time, they'll also make a sitemap page for human eyes, that you can use on your site.

The code running under the pages you see here is written using a mix of HTML, PHP, and CSS primarily, with a little bit of PERL and JavaScript thrown in. Occasionally, I'll need to look something up, and my first choice is always W3Schools.com, "The largest Web developer site on the net." I like their examples and Online Text Editor that let's you experiment with your code.