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Software design mistakes that just won’t die
(This article is a recap of a lightning talk I recently delivered at the Business of Software conference.) As the Chief Creative Officer here at Crowd Favorite, I spend pretty much all day obsessing about how to improve user experiences. I’ve observed a number of recurring software design problems over the years, and I thought I’d share a…
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Managing times & dates in WordPress
Keeping track of time in any modern computer system is a complex affair. Not only does one have to consider the timezone of the server, but the timezone of the user, the user’s system, the user’s browser, and systems such as PHP and MySQL, each with their own separate time settings. Even though time keeping…
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WordCamp London and WordCamp Belgrade 2015
It is spring time around here in Europe and a lot of WordCamps are happening in many different cities and countries. As part of the Crowd Favorite team, I have visited two WordCamps this year so far – volunteering at WordCamp London and speaking at the first WordCamp Belgrade. WordCamp London 2015 The second WordCamp…
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A modern look for Morehouse MacDonald & Associates
Morehouse Macdonald & Associates is an architecture firm based out of Massachusetts, specializing in detailed, textured, and sophisticated design. Crowd Favorite helped them tell their visual story in the creation of a WordPress website that reflects their high-end style. We are very pleased with the new web site Crowd Favorite has created for us. Our…
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JavaScript feature resolution – A case study with iSigner
Background iSigner is a JavaScript project for a subscription-based service which embeds an American Sign Language interpreter into a page, and allows the creator of that page to direct the plugin to sign page content, including image attributes (alt/title), video, and text. In order to provide the greatest amount of accessibility and flexibility that is…
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More mobile, savvy SEO, and Crowd Favorite Australia
Crowd Favorite currently delivers professional services in design and engineering to Fortune 500 companies, often connecting their existing back office systems with web-facing applications. Today Crowd Favorite is happy to announce several partnerships that will expand our suite of services for Enterprise clients. Mobile development Crowd Favorite is proud to announce a partnership with Zeek…
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WordCamp Orange County
Crowd Favorite was proud to sponsor WordCamp Orange County in 2014. Our team showed up en masse (18 Favoriteers!) to participate and meet others in the WordPress community. Our own Jeff Zinn and Brandon Dove did a lot of heavy lifting for this event so we raise a glass to their efforts. We had a couple of…
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Introducing Annotum 2.0
We are proud to announce the release of the new and improved open-source Annotum WordPress theme. The new Annotum is compatible with WordPress 3.8+, and more completely supports valid scholarly article authoring. To class it up, we introduced a number of other improvements. Annotum is a product of Solvitor with heavy lifting by Crowd Favorite, in collaboration with…
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Hacking vendor support for HiDPI Canvas
How we help The way browsers handle canvas drawing on HiDPI (or Retina) displays is a bit of an unknown specification. The common assumption is that because canvas uses vectors to rasterize its entities like lines and shapes, it should “just work” for HiDPI displays. This assumption is currently incorrect and leads to inconsistent results…
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iThemes & Crowd Favorite partner in new product development
One of the many things I have in common with our incoming CTO, Chris Lema, is we’ve both been serving Enterprise clients for over 20 years. While my focus has been primarily on the services side, Chris’ expertise comes from a products background. As we have spent the last year or more collaborating, discussing and…
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Crowd Favorite welcomes Chris Lema
In March of 2013 we invited Chris Lema to join our board of directors. It was a move that we hoped would provide strategic insight into several areas: building a high performance culture, managing remote staff, navigating ecosystems, and leveraging his 20 years of experience in managing successful startups and enterprise-level teams. In short, our…
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JavaScript profiling and optimization
JavaScript can be a very powerful tool in a web developer’s kit for producing highly-interactive, polished, responsive content. It runs in almost all browsers, across almost all devices, almost the same way on each. It can be used for data collection, such as AJAX form submission, streamlined data delivery, via infinite scroll or AJAX retrieval,…
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A New Digital Presence for Colorado Mountain College
After attending a conference where other universities touted the benefits of using WordPress to manage their website, the Colorado Mountain College team began hunting for the right partner to leverage WordPress as a content management system. Insert Crowd Favorite. We needed to move our main website from a dysfunctional platform, and we needed to move…
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Alex King interviewed for Digital Design Leadership Series
Our CTO Alex King was interviewed by Richard Banfield for Fresh Tilled Soil’s Digital Design Leadership series. In this 20 minute interview, Alex provides background on the evolution of Crowd Favorite and the shaping of our inspired culture. He also shares a sneak peak into his vision for the future of Crowd Favorite.
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WordCamp Miami
We were proud to return1 as a sponsor for WordCamp Miami again in 2014. This was a great opportunity for us to re-connect with old friends in the community and make a few new friends as well. Our thanks to the organizers for putting on another stellar event. Our CEO Karim Marucchi participated on The…
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Where to find great candidates
Hiring well into a small, focused team like Crowd Favorite is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. Over the last few months we’ve had openings for a front-end developer and a web application designer. We put a lot of effort into the job listings, our “we’re hiring” page and trying to project our…
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Done deal: VeloMedia & Crowd Favorite join forces
VeloMedia and Crowd Favorite have successfully closed the deal, joining the two companies. For those of you behind the times, in October of 2013, Karim Marucchi (Founder, VeloMedia) and Alex King (Founder, Crowd Favorite) started a discussion: What if we took the skill sets and reach of both our companies, and combined them? That simple…
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Behind the scenes of a modern website
*This article was originally published on Forty.co. Forty is now Crowd Favorite. We recently redesigned our own website (on which you’re probably reading this article right now), and thought you might be interested in hearing about some of the technology elements running the background that help shape the overall user experience. Ultra advanced front-end…
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