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here are a number of popular content management systems out there, but when people switch among them and ExpressionEngine is involved, more often than not the direction is towards EE. It’s a daunting task, converting a large site or system with hundreds or thousands of content items into another system, but it’s quite doable.
The processes involved are working out the new architecture, installing and configuring ExpressionEngine, coding new ExpressionEngine templates and testing the whole thing.
Taking us a good chunk of the way are some built-in importing utilities and an Importer add-on.
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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.
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Take Control's ebook updates now powered by ExpressionEngine
Okay, so you’ve discovered the benefits of Take Control Ebooks. Within your ebook you click the “updates” link. What then?
Chicago arthouse and film distributor Music Box deploys ExpressionEngine
The two web sites still appear as before — except where Music Box wanted design changes and additional features — but they’re now regularly updated with ease by Music Box staff.
Securosis migrates from WordPress to ExpressionEngine
We imported scores of tags, hundreds of posts and members, and thousands of comments.
TidBITS takes control with ExpressionEngine
Posting new books to the growing Take Control catalog had become an increasingly labyrinthine ordeal.
Websiteforall relaunches home site using ExpressionEngine
The award-winning creative web agency set out to standardize content management onto a single system, starting with its own site.
Helping Khoi Vinh migrate Subtraction.com to ExpressionEngine
The design of subtraction.com is so obvious and authoritative that it almost should be ubiquitous, and yet of course it’s unique.
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.
"Perfect" new CMS deployment for fabric fashion site
Without a CMS, maintaining the relatively simple Carolyn Strauss Collection website had become cumbersome and time-consuming.