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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.
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.
Processes
Architecture
Before building your site or system, plans are required for both the back and front ends.
Installation & configuration
As well as smarts, what really makes a successful implementation likely is experience.
Coding
Turn screen mock-ups into web pages, web pages into dynamic screens.
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nce we’ve populated the system with content data and produced the screen mock-ups, it’s time to knit these together and build something that the world can actually view and use.
Following the industry-standard “Model/View/Controller”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model–view–controller pattern, we’ve already produced the Model with the architecture and configuration, so next up is to produce the View. To do this we convert the screen mock-ups to web pages using HTML for the document structure, CSS for the visual design, and JavaScript (increasingly relying on the jQuery framework and jQuery plug-ins) for the interface behavior.
After producing the View we move on to the Controller. In the case of ExpressionEngine, this means converting the HTML/CSS/JS web pages into dynamic templates, where the variable areas of each template are swapped out with dynamic data by the content management system.
The reason we begin coding only after completing the design work is that wireframes may require modifications once they’ve become mock-ups and visual impracticalities appear.
The entire process, with dependencies
