Buddy Guy

Posted in Custom Code, Custom Plugins, Featured, Portfolio | Comments Off Buddy Guy’s Legends – If you like good old fashion blues music then you’ve probably heard of Buddy Guy – he’s a guitar legend, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and five-time Grammy Award winner! Buddy owns a great restaurant / bar / nightclub in Chicago, appropriately called “Legends”. The club needed a new Web site to help keep in touch...
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Interactive One

Posted in BuddyPress, Featured, Portfolio, Wordpress | Comments Off Interactive One is a huge online community serving over 8 million users every month. The overall Interactive One network include several sites, including NewsOne, TheUrbanDaily, HelloBeautiful, Giant, Elev8, and Radio One. Simpler Computing joined Interactive One’s existing team of developers, along with numerous other contract developers, to help evolve the array of sites to support the...
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Pioneer Woman

Posted in BuddyPress, Featured, Portfolio, Wordpress | Comments Off Ree Drummand is famous in her own right. She’s runs the hugely popular Pioneer Woman site – including her hugely popular Tasty Kitchen , complete with an ever growing social network based on WordPress and BuddyPress. When hackers broke into her site, that spelled bad news! She called on Simpler Computing and we kicked the hackers out fast and locked down her site. Later, we consulted...
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BigDoor Quick Gamification

Posted in Featured, Plugins, Portfolio, Wordpress | Comments Off The BigDoor Quick Gamification plugin allows WordPress site operators to easily enable a layer of game mechanics for the users of the site. Users gain points by posting comments and by checking in to your site. The check-in process involves logging in and clicking a “Check In” button – this helps to bring users back to your site frequently, which helps you to build traffic and...
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Sunrise Ranch

Posted in Featured, Portfolio | Comments Off Sunrise Ranch is spiritual retreat center located in Loveland Colorado on a 350-acre ranch and farm. We worked with the Web consultants and designers at Dagama Web Studio to create a new home page, complete with a custom slide show, new header area, new body content, and a new footer. The designers handled all the graphics and we did all the programming, including the HTML, CSS, PHP, and...
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