Creative Symbiosis: Designer and Coder Cooperate

We’ve had a couple of clients lately who have brought their own designs to us, in need of coding and installing with a content management system (namely Wordpress).  While we do create designs for some clients, our specialty is really coding and custom programming. So when we find a talented designer, it works out well [...]

New Additions to Our 2009 Portfolio

We’ve had several additions to our portfolio in the last few months.

WP-Hive: a painless Wordpress multi-site manager

Upgrading and maintaining a Wordpress installation has recently become a lot less time-consuming thanks to the automatic upgrade feature for both the main Wordpress installation and the plugins. It is ideal, though, if you’re managing multiple installations for multiple clients, that these clients are running off of one installation of Wordpress. This makes upgrades and [...]

Adding a Forum to Wordpress

The default comment feature on Wordpress is good for generating discussion on topics that you start, but what if your visitors want to create their own topics? A forum is the best format for this type of discussion. I have worked with two different forum softwares for Wordpress. One is a project of the Wordpress [...]

Amazon S3 for hosting site downloads

Girlebooks.com was one of the first sites I set up in Wordpress. The site is not only a hobby for me but also a great playground to see what I can do with Wordpress. It also is a great site to point prospective clients to when they want to see examples of what we’ve done [...]

From Our Portfolio: Global Insights Consulting

GIC already had a fully functional website and design. What they wanted was an ecommerce area that would allow them to sell digital products. We set up an online marketplace for GIC’s Wordpress-powered website. In the Marketplace visitors can add digital products to their cart, purchase their products (payments are made through PayPal Standard), and [...]

A Subscription Website Using Wordpress

Our latest work involves development of a subscription system using Wordpress on the popular financial blog, Footnoted.org. The requirements of the system were as follows:

A subscriber registration and payment processing interface
System tracking of subscription expiration dates
Download management allowing the administrator to easily upload files as well as restricting file downloads to paying subscribers only
An email [...]

Wordpress Plugin: Ad-minister

Recently, a client asked if I could create some ad spaces on his Wordpress blog that he could administer himself. The requirements:

ad spaces of differing sizes
ad spaces in multiple locations on the site
a simple administration interface with the ability to input ads with HTML code or to upload an image with a link

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