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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,…

Tools & Code, WordPress

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…

Conference, WordPress

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…

Announcements, WordPress

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…

Tools & Code

Hacking vendor support for HiDPI Canvas

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,…

General

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…

Announcements, Culture & Community

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…

Case Studies, Tools & Code

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…

Announcements, Case Studies

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…

General

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…

Conference, WordPress

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…

Culture & Community, General

The missing element in enterprise hosting

Companies offering enterprise WordPress hosting have focused too much on technology and not enough on the missing element in enterprise hosting…

General

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…

General

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…

Culture & Community, Tools & Code

WordPress do_action, PHP 5.4, and pass-by-reference

A somewhat common idiom in WordPress is to pass an object by reference 1 into do_action for possible modification: do_action(‘before_frobulation’, $frob_params, &$this); Just out of curiosity, if you’re expecting possible modification, wouldn’t apply_filter be more…

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Project Management Success for the Enterprise

Digital Insights from Crowd Favorite

JavaScript feature resolution – A case study with iSigner

More mobile, savvy SEO, and Crowd Favorite Australia

WordCamp Orange County

Introducing Annotum 2.0

Hacking vendor support for HiDPI Canvas

iThemes & Crowd Favorite partner in new product development

Crowd Favorite welcomes Chris Lema

JavaScript profiling and optimization

A New Digital Presence for Colorado Mountain College

Alex King interviewed for Digital Design Leadership Series

WordCamp Miami

The missing element in enterprise hosting

Where to find great candidates

Done deal: VeloMedia & Crowd Favorite join forces

WordPress do_action, PHP 5.4, and pass-by-reference

Behind the scenes of a modern website

CloudMoxie acquired by WP Engine

Alex King interviewed on Agency Mavericks

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