Custom WordPress Plugins running on the website include a category list feature. The website displays the Course category by sub-categories. Each entry has the title of the sub-category and lists the five most recent posts in the sub-category.

The site also features a custom WordPress Plugin providing a members directory that allows for visitors to search an A to Z directory by name and location. It displays a profile photo, user info and the most recent posts by the user. The directory connects listings to the user profile provided by WordPress. Buddhist12Step also has a custom WordPress Plugin for an event calendar. It displays upcoming events in chronological order.

The forum for the site is powered via SimplePress. This provides a turn-key solution for the websites forum. This plugin integrates seamlessly with WordPress. Instead of spending time reworking other forum software to integrate and look visually similar, SimplePress provides that functionality without much work.

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Tian had an older website that was not very visually appealing.The design was not optimized and a number of display problems existed  in various browsers. To enable her or an assistant to easily manage the website we set her up with a WordPress website. One of the goals was to make it easier to add new content and improve her search engine ranking. After setting up the WordPress website we loaded a few search engine optimization plugins to help improve her ranking.

We built two custom WordPress Plugins for her website. The first offers a scrolling image gallery to display her published books. When a user places their mouse over an image a box appears displaying more information. The images and descriptions displayed are controlled via a simple back end interface. This eliminates the hassle of updating and adding new information. The second WordPress Plugin rotates a single blog post from any number of selected categories. The Plugin selects the post in chronological order. When the Plugin reaches the most recent blog post it then changes the time stamp on the oldest post in the category to the current day. This enables the Plugin to continually cycle through content. In this case it displays over a years worth of daily affirmations.

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Allen contacted us wanting a better looking website that provided an easy to use interface. To accommodate his needs we built a WordPress website with a custom WordPress theme. This enables him to easily update content. He can designate the category controlling what section of the website his new blog posts are displayed. By setting up specific sections for categories such as Events he is able to show his most recent events without having to know how to do any coding.

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Patrick came to us wanting to improve his search engine ranking. He already had a decent website with a great amount of keyword rich  information on psychology, counseling, drugs and alcohol. We made a few visual modifications to the website, improved the assessment form, search engine optimized the pages and conducted extensive keyword research.

After conducting keyword research we selected a list of keywords we felt he could gain first page search engine rankings on Google, Yahoo and MSN. To maximize the conversion and minimize the competition we focused on geographic + specialty specific keywords helping improve his search engine ranking and conversion rates.

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Villareal a marketing company in Southern California wanted to build an online journal for professionals. After the initial discussion with the company we helped outline a website that would allow them to regularly publish a professional journal for drug and alcohol counselors, conduct mass emails, provide automated CE testing as well as collect a subscription membership fee.

To achieve these results we started with WordPress. We then integrated WordPress with PHPlist and AMEMBER. This provided the mass email and membership capabilities needed. Our team set out building a number of custom WordPress plugins for the website. This included an event calendar, job board, and professionals directory.

After completing these custom WordPress plugins we built the automated CE testing and certificate plugin. This allowed the Villareal team to choose an article, create a test with multiple choices or yes/no answers. When a user takes the test the plugin automatically calculates if they passed. If the user did not pass they have the option to retake the test or reread the article. When a test is passed the plugin automatically generates a signed PDF certificate populated with the users corresponding information. To comply with accreditation agency documentation requirements each users information and test results are stored. These can be easily exported via .CSV to provide the adequate documentation needed.

After over a year of operation the website is growing quickly with a number of members, an active community and a great resource of information for drug and alcohol counselors.

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FACES Conferences of Bellevue operates a number of mental health CE conferences. The companies old website was from the late 90s with a very inadequate e commerce system.

We came in and set up an e commerce website for them using ZenCart. This provided them with an easy to use back end interface to accept payments, track sales and customer activity. We recently redesigned the website and will provide an updated overview of the new and improved site once it is completed.

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One of the big complaints about the Epoch Design website was its lack of social media marketing tools. We explored the idea of using WordPress website and WP-E-Commerce. Due to the really negative feedback in the Wordpress community about the design and support of WP-E-Commerce we decided against that route. Instead we built a WordPress and ZenCart hybrid. All the pages on the site except for the checkout and payment process are handled by the WordPress website. This provides a search engine ranking benefit for promoting their products and press releases. When a visitors buys an item it takes them to the ZenCart site with a seamlessly integrated theme.

We also built a custom WordPress Plugin that allow for geo-locating stores based on zip codes. Store owners could login to the WordPress website, update store information, directions and even place a logo.

Since the launch of the site the MailBoss staff have been blogging up a storm. They have been extremely successful in using the powerful blogging platform WordPress to promote and drive e commerce website sales.

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Epoch Design offers a variety of home furnishing products. They have a great selection of bunk beds, futons and other home furniture. They are serious animal lovers and even have a line of dog beds. The Redmond based company also operates The Futon Factory in Bellevue and Seattle. When we started work on their website they had a very basic informational site without any real e-commerce website.

Due to their requirement of having a website that is easy to maintain, allows for 100’s of products, complex shipping and discount rules we chose ZenCart. If you haven’t used ZenCart it is worth a look. It has a bit of a learning curve and is a little clunky but offers a great e-commerce solution that is affordable and highly customizable with a variety of free third party modules.

Epoch Design wanted a design that reflected their green principles. A picture of a couple birch trees was chosen… giving the site a unique look.

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DL Scott offers a variety of mental health services specializing in Hypnotherapy and NLP. He made the transition from Project NEON a few months ago. Having started his private practice he wanted to generate leads from his web presence.

The first step we took was to convert his existing site to a WordPress website. We then set up a number of search engine optimization plugins, conducted keyword research and spent a little time optimizing pages. Lucky for us… DL is a great writer. After a little coaching he was cranking out great keyword rich content.

Within two months of online marketing services we were able to get him multiple first page listing in Google, Yahoo and Bing for hypnotherapy and smoking cessation terms. By focusing on specialty specific + location specific search phrases we were able to decrease the number of sites DL had to compete against. This also provides a higher conversion rate than non-geographic/service specific search phrases.

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This website is from pre-incorporation…back in the sole proprietorship days. Rational Treatment Services needed a simple website to inform clients about their services and provide contact information. A simple 5 page html website was built with a simple animation sequence.

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