Cobalt Engineering

http://www.cobaltengineering.com/
Launched on January 10, 2011
Blogs, Blogging, Professional / Commercial, Commercial

Cobalt Engineering is a Canadian design firm with a focus on building sustainable structures.

In 2010, Cobalt finished a complete redesign of their flat file site, and decided during the process that they wanted to add a blog and a content management system. The blog would serve important marketing purposes, and the CMS would allow more people in the organization to contribute to the Web site. By giving control over portions of the site to the appropriate staff, the site could be made more current and fresher, and show off their fantastic work better.

We recommended and installed ExpressionEngine, our favorite CMS, and did our usual magic to embed editing links to make it easier to access the content staff want to edit. Migrating in a flat file HTML site to EE is a really satisfying task, since it lets you make such good use of embedded templates and code efficiencies. It feels good to know we are able to extend the functionality of a site that already looked great and really make it work harder for Cobalt.

The blog got commenting and email to a friend functionality, and of course we built an RSS feed for it as well. The end result is a site that multi-purposes content, gives Cobalt better control over updating, and remains as accessible as ever to its audience.

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