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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Crowd Favorite (as King Design) did the WordPress build for All Things Digital, a web site for Wall Street Journal tech columnists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
All Things Digital is built on WordPress MU, with a heavy dose of customization.
Read the full case study in Alex's development blog.