Blog: September 2009

Register for the ExpressionEngine Roadshow before September 25th for a chance to win the Grand Prize

September 24, 2009

A roadshow packed with top ExpressionEngine users deserves a prize pack of top EE add-ons, so everyone signed up for the EE Roadshow before September 25 will be entered in a draw to win the EE Roadshow Grand Prize. It includes:

ExpressionEngine Commercial License with free upgrade to EE 2.0 (EllisLab)
ExpressionEngine Forum Module (EllisLab)
ExpressionEngine Multiple Site Manager (EllisLab)
Playa 2 (Brandon Kelly)
Wygwam (Brandon Kelly)
User Module (Solspace)
Tag Module (Solspace)
Diggie (Solspace)
Gallery Extended 2 (Solspace)
FoxEE E-Commerce Module (HCC Development)
12 month S-2 hosting package (Engine Hosting)

That’s more than $1000 worth of EE Software that could would give the winner a huge head start in building a phenomenal ExpressionEngine site.

The draw will be made following the Add-on panel session at 5 pm.

Hurry. Register now if you haven’t already.

(Hop Studios is one of the organizers of the EERoadshow.)

Posted by Travis Smith at 1:36 PM | Comments (1)

Web Site Health and Wellness at the Santa Monica Wellness Center

September 18, 2009

The Santa Monica Wellness Center came to us with a website badly in need of an overhaul. Everything was out of date - design, functionality, as well as the ability to reach clients effectively. Their site design had last been updated in 2001, which is a REALLY long time on the internet and things have changed dramatically in that timeframe. (Though we did enjoy the ocean sound that played when the splash page loaded.)

A major issue for staff of the center was having to go through an external web master to make any changes to the site, which was frustrating and inefficient. They also had an unhappy relationship with their previous Web master which left them feeling like they didn’t have control over their own site. This made switching the domain and moving the site to a new provider awkward. It was like navigating through a messy breakup, but fortunately we made it through.

The new site is built with ExpressionEngine which allows the control the staff so badly wanted to easily make changes and add new content as needed. The design of the site is bright, colourful, sophisticated and incorporates twitter and a blog for direct engagement of their clients. Current and new clients of the Santa Monica Wellness Center can now make inquiries through the site, as well as enjoy the excellent resources for health and well-being they make available on their website.

Physician, consider thy site healed.

Posted by Rachael Ashe at 9:30 AM | Comments (0)

Hop Studios uses AdHack to Search for Creative Services

September 14, 2009

image Hop Studios has a dilemma. We are in need of a designer to create graphics to illustrate the new modules, plugins, and extensions we have in development for ExpressionEngine. We weren’t exactly sure where to look for such a person. Then we thought of our good friends at AdHack and have decided to use their services to create a commission.

In case you haven’t heard of AdHack, their catch line is “People Powered Advertising”. Their goal is to connect ad buyers directly with ad creators, and produce work that is creative, affordable, and produced in a timely manner. Sounds good doesn’t it? We thought so too.

Using AdHack is easy. We set up an account on AdHack’s website, put together a creative brief of what we need, pressed publish, and away we went. If you’re interested in the commission, follow along to the AdHack site and read the full details. The deadline for submission is Friday September 18, 2009.

Posted by Rachael Ashe at 9:10 AM | Comments (1)

First Clients Find First Bugs

September 4, 2009

image This might be funny, or it might just be Friday, but I thought I’d share.

Kathryn Lord, owner of Find-A-Sweetheart, contacted me today.  Her blog has a list of monthly archive links on the right-hand side of the page. But she was noticing that her oldest months archives were not appearing.  What could be going wrong?

Well, it turns out that the documentation for ExpressionEngine’s monthly_links function looks like this:

{exp:weblog:month_links weblog="news" limit="50"}
{month}, {year}<br />
{/exp:weblog:month_links} 

And the limit of 50 months is reached about 4 years.  Which is when Kathryn started blogging—she was one of our first clients to do so, and she’s never missed a month. So, congrats, and beware of the default instructions sometimes!

Posted by Travis Smith at 4:35 PM | Comments (3)

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