Simply Put the agency blog

Somebody called me yesterday and asked me whether we were still in business as they had noticed that the last time we updated this blog was back in March. Well rest assured we’re alive and well! In fact, it’s been one of our busiest Summers to date. And fortunately, we’ve got a few things to show for it! Here are a few pieces of work we’ve released recently:

WooThemes

Back in June, we had the pleasure of working with the cool cats over at WooThemes - one of today’s leading experts and providers of premium WordPress themes. In their rebranding process, they came to us to hack-up and redevelop the purchase experience for the customers of its themes and its up-and-coming themes club. The trick was to integrate a secure 2Checkout payment system into their newly designed site and automate the creation of various types of user accounts once the payments were approved. Did I mention we did it all in WordPress? If you’re already a customer of WooThemes, I hope you’ve enjoyed their purchase experience. If you’re not one yet, go ahead and buy one of their wickedgood themes and sample the experience (I’m sure Adii won’t mind)!

LIVE Conference 2008

Back in its third and strongest year yet - LIVE Conference has always made a mark with its web presence that gave other leading undergraduate business conferences something to shoot for. LIVE Conference’s newly releaunch 2008 portal is no different. This year, we combined our WordPress hackery with the idea that the conference really needed a more robust and dynamic conference management system. The end product we delivered was a full featured WordPress-powered conference management platform that supported the scalable needs of a growing initiative and could support all its essential conference needs: registration, payment, scheduling, speaker profiles, and much, much more. Oh, and we think it looks pretty nice too!

What else is new?

A lot, actually. We’ve got a few secret side projects in the works, possibly including a newly formed super group of web 2.0 headbangers and internet rockstars. You’ll know it when you see it.

We’ve also made a few leaps and bounds with our WordPress work and are looking into releasing a few goodies back into the community. This may start with the public release of the conference management system, but that’s too far ahead to tell.

Sweetcron was also released recently and what can I say, we love it! If you don’t know what Sweetcron is, you’re out of the loop. It’s the WordPress of lifestreaming. Get on it! We’ve got an exciting new Sweetcron theme that we’re putting up for free download soon, but in the meantime, you can get a taste of it on Satish’s newly launched webfront: http://sati.sh.

It’s been a great Summer filled with many successes and we thank you for being patient with our absence here while we help our clients make an impact elsewhere. We’ve finally gotten around to updating our Portfolio as well, so give it a peak and see what else we’ve been up to.

In early December, we launched a holiday microsite entitled Can’t Wait for Christmas that encouraged visitors to post their wishes and share exactly what they couldn’t wait for come Christmas day. The site was a hit and we happily received almost 300 unique wishes from people all around the world. More interestingly, the site was conceived, designed, developed, and launched in less than 19 hours.

The site was simply a great in-house project that let us flex our WordPress muscles a bit. In fact, a detailed tutorial on some of the WP techniques used in the making of Can’t Wait for Christmas has been posted here. And if you’re a real keener, you can learn more about the project by reading mine and Satish’s interview about the site over at HatchThat.com.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and shared their wishes and counted down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds til Christmas with us. Hope you all had a merry one!