Here are some companies I would like to recommend as I have been so impressed by their product and/or service
THE best place to learn to surf in the whole world. Although it happens to be in Barbados. People laugh when I say Zed is a legend, but I really cannot describe him any other way. He will guarantee that you stand up on the board in the first lesson and all in a very safe and chilled out environment. Zed and his wife Claudia also rent out lovely mini villas on their beautiful grounds over looking one of the surf breaks used for lessons: Surfers Point. Amazing place with amazing people.
Sonia Canals is a very talented childrens book illustrator, designer and painter. she has illustrated countless of books and even written a few. She also does work for magazines including the BBC Tweenies and she can make amazing colourful paintings. If you need an illustration or a customized painting then do not hesitate to contact her
Free Virtual Servers and Easy Internet Solutions is where I have my hosting for my website. Their customer service and technical support is fantastic. They write back within 24 hours and answer all your questions. The control panel from which you control everything about your website, is very easy to use. You can also get domain names with them in one package and I thoroughly recommend them for anyone wanted to start their own website!
Wordpress is the blogging software that I am running on my website. It is very easy to use and installed on my own domain (made easier by easy internet solutions for having an 'install button' in their control panel- fantastic!) You can setup your website or blog really easily without having to know too much (or any) HTML language or CSS or any of the kind. There are LOTS of different themes to use for the perfect layout of your website and all sorts of different plugins to install for easy photo galleries, automatic newsletters and lots more. If you do not have your own domain you can also start a blog at www.wordpress.com but it is slightly more restrictive
Atahualpa is the theme I use for my website and the best one in my book. It has so many different options and it's own settings page, you can customize it that much, that no website using the same theme looks the same. They also have a forum where you can ask questions if you cannot find how to change something or to ask if a feature you would like is available. The editors of the forum respond fairly quickly and other readers sometimes also reply with advice
Vouwcard is a Dutch website to make a memorable gift - or a treat to yourself - by letting you design your own credit card sized, folded mini photo album. I have seen this thing in action and it is brilliant!
That is all for now although I am sure more will follow 
