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Introducing version 3 of painter Juan Carlos Bronstein’s site
This one was a labor of love wherein the background remains dark, the panther pink.
Florida Council of Independent Schools adopts CSF’s Master In-Service system
The system handles re-certification for teachers at over 160 independent Florida schools.
A revamp and redesign for Antidote Europe
The site now features nation-based language selection and a campaign-based layout.
Progress at the Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress
The ICSEP redesign relies on “Goldens”, a CSS grid framework for the golden ratio.
Take Control Books, now with account management
Both the site editor and the 48,000+ userbase get a plethora of AJAXy features.
Come springtime, southeast England’s countryside is powered by ExpressionEngine
Countryside 2010 showcases hundreds of outdoor events and activities.
Get saltEE: salt-co.com retrofitted with ExpressionEngine
The EE-powered site needed to look just as it did when updated manually.
Extend ExpressionEngine’s reach with External Entries v2
Update, select from and insert into any MySQL database directly from an EE template.
Get more next/previous power in ExpressionEngine with Nearby Entries
Amplify the power of ExpressionEngine’s next/previous entries.
Introducing Tied Entries, a new dimension for ExpressionEngine sites
Traverse a site’s various channels via their relationship fields.
Securosis migrates from WordPress to ExpressionEngine
We imported scores of tags, hundreds of posts and members, and thousands of comments.
Schools association adopts web system to manage teacher training
The MIP system is used by hundreds of teachers and dozens of school administrators.
TidBITS takes control with ExpressionEngine
Posting new books to the growing Take Control catalog had become an increasingly labyrinthine ordeal.
Deploying ExpressionEngine for a French charity gateway
We converted a clutch of HTML/CSS/Javascript files into a content-managed ExpressionEngine site.
Best Network Security switches from Joomla to ExpressionEngine
As a wise man once said, things should be as simple as they can be, but no simpler.
Archaeological Center auction #40 biggest yet
Bidders who could not travel to Tel Aviv for the auction relied on the website to view lots and bid.
ducate your customers, they say, but Engaging.net had little to teach the very smart and knowledgeable Adam Engst, co-founder of the venerable Macintosh newsletter TidBITS, publisher of Take Control Ebooks, who contacted Engaging to help redeploy the takecontrolbooks.com web site using the ExpressionEngine content management system.
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Takecontrolbooks.com had grown organically on the powerful Web Crossing platform, but Web Crossing is not really a CMS, and posting new books to the growing Take Control catalog had become an increasingly labyrinthine ordeal. Adam wanted a setup that would make the process painless.
No visual redesign was involved; in fact, visitors to the new site will be hard-pressed to notice that a completely new engine now powers their treasure trove of Macintosh knowledge. Instead, what they’ll hopefully see is more ebooks as the TidBITS mavens spend less time updating the site and more of it, to paraphrase the site’s homepage, helping leading experts provide us with the answers we need now.
See their brief take on the switchover at “Take Control Site Now Running on ExpressionEngine”.