We're back with another customer story and this time we're highlighting a web agency called Simplified Solutions. They'll share with us how they were able to utilize various Themify themes/plugins when building creative and strategic sites for their clients.

About Us

Hi, We’re Bill Kamper and Monika Arturi, Creative Director & Lead Designer at Simplified Solutions based in downtown Chicago, IL. Simplified Solutions is a Digital Marketing and Web Design Agency, where the main focus is mostly B2B for professional services. We’ve built over 100 websites for clients since 2002, and we believe brand and marketing can be threaded together by great design. What sets us apart is content, and strategy.

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Discovering Themify

With the popularity of WordPress came along many options for WordPress themes. Having built custom themes for WordPress ourselves, we knew that an admin interface that’s user-friendly was very important to our clients. Over the years, we’ve worked with other themes authored by WooThemes, Avada, Mojo and many others. We found that while they all had some good parts, as a whole, they weren’t meeting our clients' needs. Themify’s drag and drop Builder, and a growing library of plugins, stood out. As designers, we could build a very customizable website for clients that they can then manage their content easily within that design.

Working with Themify

We introduced Themify to our clients a couple of years ago to offer a more robust CMS with better, and more user friendly features, than other WordPress admins out there. We’ve used Themify for several of our clients and have had a really positive experience both with the theme and their support team as well. Themify also bundles popular features like galleries, sliders, and text blocks in their themes, which helps to avoid compatibility issues. When we’re not building a custom CMS or admin interface, Themify enables us to give the client features and control. When the client manages the content, it’s important that they can be easily trained on a platform and that they enjoy the process. Themify allows the client to do more that just copy and paste text - it allows them to create layouts too!

Our Work

  • reality check screenshot Project: Reality Check Base Theme: Ultra
  • Meritus Home Builders screenshot Project: Meritus Home Builders Base Theme: Ultra
  • HNC Support International screenshot Project: HNC Support International Base Theme: Ultra
  • Exceed Floor & Home screenshot Project: Exceed Floor & home Base Theme: Ultra
  • Better Fetter screenshot Project: Better Fetter Base Theme: Basic
  • Aha Online Qual Platform Project: Aha Online Qual Platform Base Theme: Ultra

As a creative team, the themes are versatile and allows us to create various layouts and looks with the same theme. Right now, Ultra is our favorite. We use a lot of the add-ons and plugins based on the project’s needs; it all works seamlessly. We’ve also never had issues adding in other, third party plugins to their themes.

We’re excited to see what Themify has coming up in the future! 

- Monika Arturi

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