Development

Working With Us

More information on how we work together with you, from the proposal through project completion.

Rates

We tier our billing rates from $125-175/hour based on project size.

Special rates and fixed bid estimates can be negotiated for larger projects. Please contact us to discuss your project.

Lead Time

We currently have a 1-2 month lead time for taking on significant development projects. Small projects and customizations can sometimes be worked in on a faster timeline (depending on project scope and availability).

Happy Customers

Take a look at the testimonials page to hear from the customers themselves.

WordPress Development

WordPressWe offer custom plugin development services, WordPress as a CMS development, WordPress theme design and development, WPMU (WordPress Multi-User) development, integrations, and general “how can I do this?” services for WordPress.

If you need to do something with, to, or in concert with WordPress - we can make it happen.

Crowd Favorite founder Alex King is an original contributing developers to WordPress. Alex has built a number of free WordPress plugins which are available on his personal site.

CodeIgniter Development

CodeIgniterCodeIgniter is a PHP web development framework for rapid web application development, much like Ruby on Rails. Crowd Favorite has adopted CodeIgniter as its web development framework of choice, and has had great success using it to build a variety of advanced custom applications.

It’s fast, secure and speeds up the development process. What’s not to like? If you need CodeIgniter consulting, Crowd Favorite is here to help.

Google App Engine Development

Crowd Favorite is already working on several internal projects using Google App Engine. If you need to build an internet scale hosted web application, this is a great option. Crowd Favorite builds for Google App Engine using Python and Django. We can implement functionality that isn’t supported by GAE using Amazon AWS for a full “cloud” solution.

iPhone Web Development

Yes, Crowd Favorite is on the cutting edge of iPhone web application development. Do you have something you want built or adapted to work elegantly on the iPhone? Get in touch.

Software Customizations

Different organizations have different needs for their software and systems. We are happy to provide customizations to our software to meet your specific needs. We’ve done a wide range of customizations for our customers - let us know what you need and we can discuss a solution.

User Interface Design

Alex has designed the user interfaces for over ten web based applications and improved countless others through critiques and revision work, including several extensive enterprise software systems. Application and user interface design are projects we love to participate in. Building software is fun, but making it a joy to use is a real passion of his.

General Web Development

Have an interesting project you’d like some help with? We’re the PHP, AJAX, JavaScript, XHTML, CSS shop that can help.

Case Studies (from the Dev Blog)

  1. Progressive License 1.0
    Steve O’Grady of RedMonk announced the Progressive License WordPress plugin at WordCamp San Francisco. Progressive License is similar to other plugins that allow you to easily put a license on y…
  2. JabberWerx AJAX
    JabberWerx AJAX has hit the streets! JabberWerx AJAX is a set of thin client JavaScript libraries that can be easily embedded into existing web sites and web applications to add rich push functionali…
  3. New Lijit WordPress Plugin
    There’s a new and improved Lijit WordPress plugin available for download. This version is one that my company, Crowd Favorite, had the pleasure of helping build. The new plugin makes it easy for…
  4. Addictomatic Refreshed
    Addictomatic is sporting a shiny new suit today. The overall look has been updated with a great new design from Bryan Bell, and a number of little features have been added and minor tweaks made since …
  5. PhoneFactor 1.0
    PhoneFactor is a WordPress plugin that provides an additional layer of security when logging in to your WordPress site. It’s a pretty cool system. When you log in to your WordPress blog with Ph…
  6. OpenedHand Redesign
    Last fall Crowd Favorite had the opportunity to work with OpenedHand1 to redesign their web site. Their site is powered by WordPress and we did the design and created some custom theme features for th…
  7. Addictomatic
    Over the last few months, Crowd Favorite has had the privilege of working with Dave Pell to create a new search service: Addictomatic Addictomatic is a search aggregator, a way to see results from lo…

Applause

After a year and a half of meandering efforts that went nowhere, and two different web design firms, I was beginning to lose hope that we’d ever revamp our aging front end at RedMonk.com.

Enter Crowd Favorite, in the form of Alex King. In a few short weeks, he’d migrated us from Movable Type to WordPress (keeping our existing links functional), designed a meta-template for our blogs that can be easily reskinned on an individual basis, and introduced the brilliant header concept which links our disparate sites for better cross-promotion. And that was just the beginning.

Throughout the work on our blogs or the eventual reconstruction of our main website, Alex displayed just the right touch needed to shepherd us along. Those of you that have used design firms in the past are probably aware that they’re often at one extreme or the other: either unresponsive to feedback, or overly responsive. Finding someone that can walk that fine line is a rare gift, but Alex has it in spades.

Based on his substantial contributions to the WordPress community and solid history of building standalone web applications, his technical chops were no surprise. What I hadn’t realized was that they were coupled with the much less common ability to work effectively with even the most difficult of customers. Customers like us, who didn’t really know what we wanted, let alone how to get there.

If you happen to find yourself in the market for design and development services, then, just trust me when I tell you that you’re not going to do much better. I’d also tell you to just trust that he knows what he’s doing, but I think you’ll find that out on your own pretty quickly.

Stephen O’Grady, Principal Analyst and Co-founder, RedMonk

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