WPCoder - Affordable PSD to WordPress Coding

WPCoderIf you remember, a little over two weeks ago, we were looking for a WordPress developer for an upcoming project. That project is here. Today we’d like to announce WPCoder, the most affordable and quality-ensured PSD-to-WordPress turnaround site on the net.

A Little Bit About Us

We’re a small group of code ninjas that specialize in WordPress development. In addition to Dan and I, two active WordPress developers, we’ve also added a guy by the name of Ryan Imel to the development team. We found him after posting the opening mentioned above. Ryan will bring his development expertise to the table and allow us to take on even more projects at once.

WPCoder’s Previous History

I’ve had the domain WPCoder.com for a while, first used as my portfolio site and then planned as the home of a new site for WordPress hacks and snippets by my good friend, Alain Fontaine. Unfortunately, the site couldn’t squeeze out of the development stage, leaving WPCoder, once again, useless, empty, and alone.

When Dan was running WPCustomization, an older PSD-to-WordPress turnaround site, I mentioned to him that I had this domain available. He was already planning on revamping the site, so it was decided that WPCustomization would be come WPCoder and it would be launched as a WPCandy site. Dan gained tons of experience from running WPCustomization, which we then took into account when planning WPCoder.

WPCoder’s Fantastic Design

I’m sure the first thing you noticed was WPCoder’s amazing design (what an understatement). We’re sporting an extremely unique design concept by another first-class designer. Matt Davey, designer of the current WPCandy logo, created the WPCoder identity, and Ben Debnam of Goo Creative was hired to expand the logo’s theme and design our site’s front page. WPCoder sports a gorgeous machine on the homepage which perfectly illustrates the purpose of WPCoder.

Behind the scenes is our custom client area, developed with CodeIgniter by our own Dan Philibin. He saw this as an opportunity to learn the CodeIgniter framework and proceeded to develop our project management system, where customers can login and manage projects, comments, files, notes, and more.


Index Page Design


Order Form Design

Let us know what you think about the site, the design, or just about anything else. We want to hear what you’ve got to say!

Michael Castilla September 15th, 2008 Articles, Miscellaneous

30 Responses to “WPCoder - Affordable PSD to WordPress Coding”

Verne
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

The site looks hot guys, slick work! All the best with it!

Nouman Saleem
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

Your site looks awesome. Congratz on entering a new area in wordpress.

Brandon Cox
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Okay, the design took a lot of talent. But the word “ninjas” is a bit cheesy and overused - sooo 1997, and when I see the whole factory thing, it screams “non-unique.” Seems to say, “We’re just churnin’ em out! Still, love the clipboard page.

Brandon Cox
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 11:15 pm

Well, I meant 2007… “ninja” wasn’t used in the 90’s - sorry.

Paul Gendek
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

Get a quote on there and I’ll do it for half. ;)

m@
Posted on September 15th, 2008 at 11:36 pm

That’s a great idea. Great way to explain the concept with the images. I might be interested in something like this. Too bad there is no 2 months for $60 option.

Denis
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 4:25 am

The price too high….

Ben Debnam
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 6:09 am

Glad everyone likes the design, working with the WPcandy, WPcoder team has been a real pleasure. Matt Davey and I are great buddies so its always a joy working with him on stuff :D

Adii
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 6:48 am

Awesome work guys! Really love the site itself and if that is anything to go by, then the coding will be top-notch stuff as well. I might have to send some work your way… :P

Sir Ali
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 6:56 am

Looking great! Congrats. :)

Andrea_R
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 7:56 am

Oh my, that design is freakin’ awesome.

Ian Stewart
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 11:36 am

Holy. Hell.

You guys knocked that out of the park. Great effort. Awesome service. Beautiful design.

Michael Martine, Remarkablogger
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Wow you guys so rock! This is seriously the best thing since sliced tables. Very affordable compared to custom work, and not cookie-cutter like premium themes. It’s perfect!

Christopher Anderton
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Nice. But i think many will still use asian coders for a lot cheaper. I’ve seen some work by asian coders, and they are good. Sweatshop or not.

Mike Smith
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 7:01 pm

WOW. that design is AWESOME. the idea behind the PS turning into the WP logo is great. Awesome work.

Michael Castilla
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

Thanks for the encouraging words everyone! We appreciate it :)

@Adii - Sounds good, haha.

@Christopher - Yeah probably, but we put our price where our mouth’s at!

Susan
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

Very cool - Love it!!

joel melendez
Posted on September 16th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

the price is ok guys… just leave it like that… the developers are not there to give their work for free… we need to eat!!

dian
Posted on September 17th, 2008 at 9:11 am

I didn’t grasp what WPCoder offer, or maybe is it just me? so u offer a customize wordpress theme, upon request?

Michael Castilla
Posted on September 17th, 2008 at 10:32 am

@dian - We take PSDs or CSS/XHTML templates and turn them into fully functional WordPress themes.

guru
Posted on September 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

WOW! love the idea, i may have to swing some work your way!

i love the concept of giving you a psd and getting back code! PERFECT!

Christopher Anderton
Posted on September 19th, 2008 at 12:22 pm

But one thing the “sweatshop” coders cannot compete, is your understanding of design. Forgot that in my previous comment. :)

Frank
Posted on September 20th, 2008 at 12:48 pm

I just have to say how awesome that clipboard design is. Such a good idea!

Jonathan
Posted on September 27th, 2008 at 5:52 am

The site looks awesome guys. I ever want a PSD turned into a WordPress theme I’ll be sending it your way.

Jonathan

James
Posted on September 27th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

With all the time that obviously went into the design I am surprised no effort was put into making sure the site degrades fully. I guess you’re not interested in people without JavaScript!? Why should they get screwed just because you are lazy? … Ok maybe it’s not laziness but you better have a pretty good excuse for not taking the time to do this!

Spence
Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 7:32 am

Sites like this, 100% aimed at designers and programmers, seriously, how many of them don’t have javascript enabled. Always an argument lost on me!

Great design by the way!

James
Posted on September 29th, 2008 at 9:33 am

@Spence - That is not an argument! No matter who is likely to view the site you should always make sure it degrades gracefully. It’s a very basic development process: Always develop a site assuming the worst and then progressively enhance from that point upwards! It’s not rocket science and making this particular site degrade is not a lengthy task, I doubt it would take long at all!

You can’t just assume that all people viewing the site are going to have JavaScript enabled! Even if it’s only 0.05% who have it disabled it’s still worth the time to make the site functions correctly for them!

Lisa Wood
Posted on October 9th, 2008 at 6:20 am

this is awesome - and I don’t think it’s at all overpriced. Great job!

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