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“...skilled insight…”
—Jon Robinson, Best Network Security
“Bookmarked for the EE Jedi tricks…”
—Devon Shaw, in the comments
“I’m extremely impressed…”
—Matt Weinberg, Vector Computer Consulting
“...incredible, invaluable, indefatigable…”
—Khoi Vinh, Subtraction.com
Ways for becoming internet bodies
What does your organization aim to achieve? EngagingNet collaborates with you in planning web sites and entire web systems that help achieve those goals.
Once the plan is clear, implemention usually involves:
EngagingNet is pleased to work with other web folks.
We’re often tapped for the content-management side of things, and have enjoyed working with:
To develop a new site with the renowned ExpressionEngine web publishing system or to move an existing site onto EE requires either hiring an experienced developer or doing the job in-house and relying on the support forums (which are great—that’s after all how we learned).
ExpressionEngine Consulting provides a third way. We don’t do it, you do it, but we guide you and stay by your side until the job is done. The benefits? You learn the system and minimize outsourcing costs yet also acquire an experienced EE developer for your team.
EngagingNet is a member of the ExpressionEngine Pro Network.
EngagingNet uses these standards and software products:
EngagingNet is a small lean web development shop in Brighton, UK led by Adam Khan. Actually, there is no other staff. Instead, tasks are outsourced to trusted web developers and designers, and all are things Adam could do himself (see "Do it yourself first").
Adam was born in Glasgow, Scotland and moved with his family to Israel. After serving in the Israel Defence Forces he attended Deep Springs College and the University of Chicago.
As well as working as a web developer he has been a technical writer at Amdocs (Israel) and an online editor at The Jerusalem Post.
He maintains these personal web sites:
“We hired Adam because his skill at architecting our diverse information and mapping our feature requirements to Expression Engine was immediately apparent. He did a fabulous job unlocking us from our Joomla shackles and putting us on a platform that will allow our site to serve our customers more effectively. He was extremely responsive and offered skilled insight to our concerns and offered valuable input that guided us throughout the development process. Would highly recommend Adam to anyone who needs to quickly get an EE site off the ground.”
Best Network Security,
www.bestnetworksecurity.com

Adam Khan, Saturday, November 8th, 2008
Always pushing to improve offerings to clients, award-winning creative web agency Websiteforall set out to standardize content management onto a single system—and selected ExpressionEngine. The first step: to convert the Websiteforall site itself to EE. Websiteforall principal Stephen James asked EngagingNet to implement the EE deployment while he redesigned the site.
The result is an extensive portfolio that conveys Websiteforall’s services and track record more immediately than before. Indeed, so streamlined is the site that it’s produced by a single EE template. Continue
Helping Khoi Vinh migrate Subtraction.com to ExpressionEngineAdam Khan, Sunday, September 28th, 2008
If there be classics of web design Subtraction.com is surely among them. The personal site of Khoi Vinh, now Design Director of nytimes.com, its design is so obvious and authoritative that it almost should be ubiquitous, and yet of course it’s unique. For me currently only www.guardian.co.uk jumps to mind as a rival in the art of employing spacing to augment reading.
In January 2008 Khoi announced that he was switching the site’s publishing system from MovableType to ExpressionEngine. I offered to help out and he took me up on it. Following is a detailed explanation of the ExpressionEngine templates that now serve up Subtraction.com as of v7.1. Continue
Coral Ridge Church launches new web siteAdam Khan, Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Now online at crpc.org, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church’s new web site is authored by the church’s staff, with multimedia content such as audio files, photos, billboards and PDF documents as well as web-native news, events, activities and more. EngagingNet was tapped by WebLadyBug of Fort Lauderdale, FL to collaborate on designing and developing the content-managed site. Coral Ridge is the founding church of the Evangelism Explosion movement, which now has a presence in every nation of the world. Continue
Bestnetworksecurity.com switches from Joomla to ExpressionEngineAdam Khan, Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
BestNetworkSecurity, a web site selling network security products and expertise, was running on the Joomla content management system and perplexing not only its users but even its owners. The site had various types of content, including products, vendors, seminars and articles, but all were being handled the same way. Things should be as simple as they can be, as a wise man once said, but no simpler. With the conversion to ExpressionEngine, we added enough complexity to the site architecture to simplify both its maintenance for the owners and its navigation for users. Continue
Extreme Elements TV quits Joomla for ExpressionEngineAdam Khan, Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Since EngagingNet doesn’t work with any content management system other than ExpressionEngine, it’s hard to say for sure whether it’s the best. But Florida-based Extreme Elements does—or rather, did: While EngagingNet built one site in EE for the adventure travel company, another agency built a second site in Joomla. After about a year Extreme Elements principal Paul Caswell threw in the towel with Joomla and asked EngagingNet to redo that second site, extremeelements.tv, in ExpressionEngine. Continue
EngagingNet scripts “amazing” date-based calculatorAdam Khan, Saturday, November 10th, 2007
JavaScript is touted as a disruptive technology: many tasks previously done within desktop applications are now more easily doable for JavaScript-enabled web browsers. We’ve known this was coming—it’s why Microsoft was so desperate to kill Netscape, because it feared the web browser would become the new desktop—but like all technological revolutions, the change has come more slowly than we all thought. Here’s an extremely modest example of client-side programming that EngagingNet was asked to build. Continue
Adam Khan, Monday, May 14th, 2007
The subtle differences among web browsers can make producing HTML and CSS for a web site tedious and time-consuming. In particular, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, which dominated the market longer than it should have, creates problems for CSS coders because it has a number of insidious bugs and does not support some important CSS directives. Web pages that render properly on less popular but more standards-compliant and modern browers, such as Firefox, do not render properly on the older IE6 (or sometimes even the new IE7 for that matter). Continue
Extreme Elements now blazingly staticAdam Khan, Monday, April 30th, 2007
As both a travel store and a sports media destination, traffic at extremeelements.com spikes during competition time. With the new site’s complex pages her first outing was a disappointment, the server frequently becoming overwhelmed and collapsing. A workaround entitled “publish static” now provides a blazingly fast, stable site and at least one added benefit besides. Continue
“Perfect” new content management system for fabric fashion siteAdam Khan, Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Without a content management system, maintaining the relatively simple Carolyn Strauss Collection website had become cumbersome and time-consuming. Vector Computer Consulting sought “a way to automate this process with a Content Management System (CMS) that can take care of the entire process of uploading, resizing, and adding collections to the navigation lists.” EngagingNet provided a solution, and upon trying it Vector principal Matt Weinberg christened it “perfect”. Continue
Archaeological Center auction #40 biggest yetAdam Khan, Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Because this Archaeological Center auction was so unusually large, the printed catalog could not be delivered to international bidders in time, so they relied on the website alone to view lots and make pre-auction bids on them. Continue