services
Web Development & Design
A full-service agency, Engaging.net delivers web sites and systems that work.
Designer & Developer Support
When other web suppliers tap us it’s usually for our ExpressionEngine chops.
Recently
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 weblogs via their relationship fields.
products
External SAEF (Free)
Insert a row into any MySQL database table using a form on an ExpressionEngine page.
Tied Entries ($20)
An ExpressionEngine plugin to access content entries further than a single relationship away.
Elsewhere
After Steve Jobs’ resignation, the Daringfireball round-up of anecdotes:
Marxist academic Slavoj Žižek on what are not proletarian protests but protests against the threat of being reduced to proletarians.
Nice post by the always sensible Boyink re taking on a failed project.
John Malkovich on Charlie Rose. John Malkovich: The world is in fact, well, if you’re anywhere near as lucky as I have been, but even if you’re just moderately lucky, the world is in fact an exquisitely beautiful, endlessly fascinating place filled often with spectacular people. Charlie Rose: That’s exactly the way I feel. JM: You know… CR: Exactly!
Some probabilistic, and in restrospect kind of obvious, methods for seeing who in Facebook is interested in you. Here’s looking at you, XXX.
Can we home knowledge workers learn from the monks and nuns who preceded us?
A statement from Louis C.K. on the direct sale of his Beacon Theatre special.
Irit and I were discussing this regarding ET, which still feels contemporary: in arts, entertainment and style, it’s been Groundhog Day for 20 years. “Now that we have instant universal access to every old image and recorded sound, the future has arrived and it’s all about dreaming of the past.”
We need to go back to nature in order to move forward. Amazing futuristic ways to be smart about energy in your own house by Philips at Dutch Design Week.
articles
Single-template ExpressionEngine site for Websiteforall
The creative agency’s new portfolio site takes the visitor immediately to the heart of matters.
How Subtraction.com was converted to EE
As a standard-bearer of design excellence everything at Khoi Vinh’s web site has to be just so.
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.
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rmed with a plan for the back-end, the rubber hits the road with the installation and configuration of the system chosen for the project.
Each system of course has its own way of doing things, and developing a plan on paper into an actual working system is always a bit of an act of translation. The likelihood of a successful realization of a plan within a particular system is increased mostly by one thing: experience with that system (smarts notwithstanding).
Engaging.net’s experience is with ExpressionEngine — as users of its predecessor, pMachine, we’ve been using EE from the moment it was released.
With EE, the system itself needs to be installed, as well as the software it rests on (see the ExpressionEngine Requirements page). Then we can install and configure the add-ons and build out the channels, fields, categories, statuses and member groups.
The entire process, with dependencies
