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Gold
WebDevStudios is a Philadelphia based website development company specializing in WordPress powered websites. With a full staff of developers and designers who live and breathe WordPress, we pride ourselves in being WordPress experts. We have the resources to support any client from a single blog to a WordPress Multisite network with thousands of sites to a BuddyPress site with thousands of members. WDS does WordPress!
Since 2007, Inverse Paradox has provided high quality and robust solutions for businesses’ design, internet and marketing needs. Specializing in content management systems, in particular WordPress, Inverse Paradox has created user-friendly, engaging designs for hundreds of clients across a wide range of industries. These industries range from medical and educational institutions to sports & entertainment and retail. The IP team always looks to use WordPress functionality in innovative ways to achieve their client’s business goals, often implementing e-commerce capabilities and custom catalogs as well.
If you use WordPress to build things for other people, we want to make your life easier. No matter whether you freelance on a solo basis, lead a small web shop, make plugins in a dark closet, or crack the whip at a large design firm, our aim is to become your go-to source of information and resources to help you expand your WordPress skills and know-how. To make you better at what you do. To make it easier to make your living and look great doing it.
You’re part of a tribe of WordPress designers and developers over 10,000 strong, spanning the entire globe. CodePoet.com aims to bring the working knowledge and real world strategies of those people into one place, for you tap into.
Silver
US Server Net grew out of a small, local web design and hosting service that began in 1997. Our Managed WordPress Hosting is designed specifically for small business owners, busy professionals, home-based and virtual businesses, groups, and individuals who need an easy way to manage web publishing. By using WordPress as a Content Management System, our clients learn to organize their online information using pages and posts, pictures, audio and video clips.
In 2011 we developed Site Insurance Management Services (SIMS), a website bundle that brought peace of mind to the clients who took advantage of this hosting option. At the beginning of 2012, SIMS was folded into our WP Server bundle and ServerNet.us was born. Today we are growing rapidly, as more individuals, groups, small businesses and organizations learn how easy it is to get a WordPress site up and running, without having to worry about the technology and software management details that we provide as part of every site subscription.
Starting at just $33 per month, sites include a complete WordPress installation with premium theme framework, our suite of security and productivity plugins, web and email hosting, domain management, WordPress core, theme and plugin updates, site monitoring, malware scanning, and automated scheduled backup. Training options include both site administration workshops at our King of Prussia office as well as Introduction to Web Publishing, a series of four 90-minute webinars offered monthly.
BackupBuddy allows you to backup, migrate, and restore your entire single or Multisite WordPress install including the widgets, themes and plugins. To keep your backups safe, BackupBuddy supports sending your backups offsite to Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud, Dropbox, FTP, and email. Quickly and easily restore your site on the same server or migrate to a new server with a different domain and database. The process is easy, fast, and reliable.
Builder is a theme framework from the folks at iThemes. Builder’s Layout Engine allows you to quickly and easily create any page layout you like without having to be a coder. With more than 45 child themes (and more always in development) it’s easy to find a design that fits your website. To customize your theme, you can use Builder’s Style Manager to tweak the design to your liking, all without ever touching a line of code. Builder also has built-in SEO options, to make sure your site can be easily found by search engines.
Bronze
Semper Fi Web Design is an established provider of online business solutions. We are based in Raleigh, North Carolina and provide web site maintenance, web site design, web site development, web site programming, web site hosting, web site marketing and more to a wide range of business throughout the US.
Semper Fi Web Design can help you quickly and reliably address your web site maintenance needs, build your online store, develop your company’s extranet and so much more. For more information please contact us for a free consultation.
All-in-One SEO Pro optimizes your WordPress website for maximum search engine visibility.
Venue & Food
The Fox School’s Management Information Systems department was founded in 2000. Dean M. Moshe Porat formed the department to support the three strategic pillars of the Fox school, entrepreneurship, globalization, and information technology. Dr. Munir Mandviwalla, founded the MIS department and currently serves as department chair. The Fox School’s MIS department is one of the youngest business oriented IT academic units in the U.S.
The newly revised (2010) vision of FoxMIS is to be a worldwide leader in transformative research and teaching on the design, use, and effects of information technology in a digital world.
Fox MIS prides itself on being connected and innovative.
- FoxMIS ranked number 1 for research worldwide in 2010
- TechRepublic ranked the Fox BBA in MIS a top 10 U.S. program in 2008.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education ranked Fox MIS in the top 10 for research in 2007.
- Named “2001 Program of the Year” by Eastern Technology Council (represents about 1100 IT firms).
- Fox “Techno/MBA” ranked 14th By Computerworld in 1999/2000.
The Fox School’s MIS department offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs in information systems and includes more than 750 majors and minors and 14 faculty members. The associated Institute for Business and Information Technology (IBIT) connects students and faculty with industry leaders through a membership structure, and provides project and professional development opportunities. More information at: http://www.ibit.temple.edu.
Small Business
Poka Yoke Design
Since 2009, Poka Yoke Design has created custom WordPress themes and layouts for an eclectic group of clients, ranging from non-profits, design blogs, and educational institutions. With our small, yet innovative group, we hope to bring a new identity to your brand while always keeping your core audience in mind. In the end, it is our goal to free the world of poor decisions made by designers and developers alike and, in the process, effortlessly unite brilliant visual design with seamless performance.
License Restoration Services Inc.
At License Restoration Services, our mission is to provide professional representation in all matters related to Pennsylvania license suspension and problems with your Pennsylvania drivers license. This could include driver license suspension, traffic accident judgments, (OLL) Occupational Limited License application, and traffic tickets. In addition, we will make every effort to have your suspended driver’s license restored or replaced with a work license (OLL) or limited license. We specialize in working throughout Pennsylvania in correcting issues with your suspended license with PennDOT.
Arcisphere Technologies
Arcisphere Technologies helps clients navigate the end-to-end software development process using the IBM Rational product line. Arcisphere’s team has unmatched expertise in the best practice techniques and strategies for simplifying the software development process to maximize the efficiency and productivity of clients. Arcisphere Tech, founded by former IBM employees, builds collaborative relationships with clients in order to understand their changing needs and deliver results. They also offer consulting, training, staffing and staff augmentation services to deliver business solutions that are fully customizable to both the immediate and long-term goals of each client.
Design
YIKES, Inc. is a women-owned company dedicated to green business practices. Since 1996, YIKES has been a socially responsible business observing the triple bottom line: people, planet, profit. YIKES is committed to building a more socially, environmentally and financially sustainable local economy.
YIKES is a member of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, the Independence Business Alliance and is a B Corporation member. YIKES has also earned and is approved to be listed as a green business in their National Green Pages™ directory.
The YIKES office is powered by 100% renewable electricity through the Energy Cooperative Association of Pennsylvania. Most of the paper materials used by YIKES are recycled and printed with soy ink. YIKES is also a 100% Replanted office. YIKES employees donate a percentage of YIKES’ profits to non-profit organizations every year.
Platinum
WP Engine is the Premiere Managed WordPress hosting company. We offer fast WordPress hosting that is beloved by hundreds of bloggers and website owners. We work with huge, popular sites, including HTC, Foursquare, SoundCloud, and VM Ware, as well as small business owners who are focused on providing amazing customers experience. WP Engine has a suite of developer tools like a staging area, and automatic nightly backups to simplify development on WordPress Perhaps best of all is their tech support, where only WordPress experts troubleshoot your support questions.
WP Engine is grateful to the WordCamp Philly Organizers, and is proud to be able to support the local WordPress community. We’d love to meet you and learn about what you’ve built in WordPress, and also offer all the attendees a free account for life on WP Engine.
But what if you’ve seen the WP Engine team at a previous WordCamp, and already have one of WP Engine’s classic (and now discontinued) T-Shirts? That’s awesome! We’d love to see you again and hear how your sites are doing and what your latest projects involve. We also have a gift for you. Everyone who drops by the WP Engine booth wearing a vintage WP Engine t-shirt, will receive a VIP gift (while they last) as a thank you for being a part of our family and choosing our hosting platform.
Sticker
StickerGiant is the sticker company that does it all. The latest digital production methods, as well as old school silkscreen printing are all available at StickerGiant Custom Sticker Printing. Customer Service at StickerGiant is available from real people that are very knowledgable about all things sticker and can help any company create any kind of sticker to stand out.
StickerGiant writes about its customers, and tells their stories on its blog at http://www.stickergiant.com/blog/ where every sticker has a story.
Follow StickerGiant on twitter @stickergiant and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/stickergiant.