News & Updates

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We’re hiring a local, full-time, kick-ass front-end developer with heavy WordPress experience. If you know what “The Loop” is, we would love to meet you. We are looking for a guy or gal to become the newest member of our growing team.

The Job.
For those who haven’t a clue on who we are, we are Westwerk and we are WerkPress. Working alongside our team here at Westwerk, you will be responsible for building, learning and breathing everything web/app and WordPress. You will be responsible for bringing designs to life, creating wonderfully well written and absolutely beautiful code.  You will work on projects, both in small teams and alone.

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Meet Zach Hink

Meet our new designer here at Westwerk, Zach Hink. Hailing from Buffalo, Minnesota, Zach is a perfect fit for our well-rounded, awesome team.

How would you describe yourself in three words?
“Hard-working, alpha-male, jackhammer…   merciless, insatiable.”

What is your favorite hobby?
If it counts as a hobby, spending time with my wife and kids, I also like to play some 6 string and drawring pictures.

What is your dream vacation?
Iceland, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Ireland; and yes, this would all be the same vacation, it would be a long one with my wife and lots of mountains, ocean, and castles.

What is your favorite movie? Why?
Braveheart. It’s a war move, a love story, and a bunch of dudes in skirts and long hair taking on an entire country.

If you were a car, what kind of car would you be?   
El Camino. It can’t be fit into a category, and it’s kind of cool but still mostly awkward.

What is your least favorite word?
Cliché: Using the word cliche is so cliche.

What would you do if you had a time machine?
Go back in time and stop the creation if Internet Explorer.

What is your job description (in your own words)?
I get to tell stories visually. I also love the fact that I’m privileged to create things everyday!

Oh and I’m pretty sure somewhere in that job description is foosball, this is good.

Welcome Boise State University

This month we are honored to announce that we are working with Boise State University on re-designing their website. Many of us are familiar with the blue football field from Boise State University, but in reality it’s so much more than just the blue field. Recently, a few of us took a trip to Boise to kick-off the website re-design project with the web team at Boise State University and were pleasantly surprised with how awesome the city of Boise and Boise State University is. The people, the food, the campus, the city, the nightlife…and yes, the blue field.

It was a pleasure being in Boise and it is even more of a pleasure to be a part of such a wonderful project. Be on the lookout for the new Boise State University to the interwebs around July sometime.

Now… back to flexing more creative muscles and getting in our game-day mindset to pump out some killer designs for the university!

 

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Massive Camp San Diego

Earlier this month a few of us headed out to San Diego for Massive Camp, and we must tell you how killer-awesome it was! What an awesome group of people we got to meet up with and collaborate with! The Massive Press (the group of people behind Massive Camp) mission: We are a group of entrepreneurs in the WordPress community who have found common ground, share common goals and feel strongly that we can accomplish so much more together, than we can apart. We believe in collaboration over competition and strive to bring value to the WordPress community through offering fantastic deals on bundled products that enhance your online experience, education and support and exposure for the commercial WordPress community by providing you with a network to collaborate with, learn from, share ideas and make connections.

We are sincerely honored to now be part of Massive Press with our WerkPress solution. What an amazing idea, “accomplish so much more together, then we can apart…” and this is exactly the process we took while at Massive Camp. The two days we got together for the camp were not only a wonderful learning experience in WordPress and how others are utilizing the platform and all of it’s possibilities; but it was about collaborating to build something really neat (although we can’t reveal what that is right now, you will soon find out). All photos taken by the amazingly talented Jana Morgan.

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Yep, it’s true, we’re hiring a local, full-time, super-awesome interactive designer/developer with WordPress experience. If you know what “The Loop” is, we would love to meet you. For those who haven’t a clue on who we are, we are Westwerk and we are WerkPress. We are looking for a super-awesome guy or gal to become the newest member of our growing team. Are you super-ridiculously-awesome?

The Job.

Working alongside our team here at Westwerk, you will be responsible for designing, building, learning and breathing everything web/UI design and WordPress. You will be responsible for creating awe-inspiring, kick-awesome, pixel-perfect, pretty-yet-functional designs and absolutely beautiful code. Working on projects, both in small teams and alone. Additionally you would be responsible for interactive, creative, or traditional media work if it fits the bill.

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