Now Running on ExpressionEngine
23.12.2009 - Other
ExpressionEngine by EllisLab
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To make a long story short, our websites were running on a custom made Content Management System (CMS) that served us well. We wanted to move to an industry standard CMS for the following reasons: scalability, ease of maintenance and speed optimisation. After considering different options, we chose ExpressionEngine and never looked back.
With the planning and definition period behind us, it only took the two of us three weeks to port the website on ExpressionEngine and to have it functional on a development server. As always, the support from both EllisLab and the community was top notch.
3 More to Go
With the International Polar Foundation website and SciencePoles ported over to EE, we only have three others to migrate, all of them are multilingual. MSM here we come!
Add-ons in use
This website relies on a handful of add-ons to power certain functionalities. Here is a short list:
- FieldFrame by Brandon Kelly
- Playa2 by Brandon Kelly
- Gypsy by Brandon Kelly
- nGen File Field by nGen Works
- Image Sizer by David Rencher
- User Module by Solspace
- Freeform by Solspace
Combined with a new server, moving to ExpressionEngine has made the site significantly faster for users and administrators alike. Using a paid solution like EE gives us a solid base to build on, terrific online support, a good security track record and the ability to hire external developers more easily. Did we mention the extraordinary community yet ?
