Emtwo, LLC - Website Development, Website Design, Specializing in ExpressionEngine Design and Websites

Just like last year, Emtwo is again participating in the May 1 CSS Reboot.  IN addition, we’re also participating in the Standard’s Reboot, which is also scheduled for May 1st. However, instead of being a day late, like last year, we’re about a week early.  Our schedules didn’t mesh well with the May 1st date, so we launched when we could.  And here it is!

Since Emtwo is no longer a one-woman shop, we really wanted to refine our image and brand to reflect the style and personality of both Sean and I.  As well as fine-tune some of our back-end coding so that things on the front-end run much smoother.  We hope you enjoy our refreshed and snazzy Emtwo website.

It’s true, it’s true.  We bought a house, we picked out the lot and we are officially homeowners.  All in one day.  In a very emotional and exciting day.

This here is the land we picked out.  It’s more deep than it is wide, which is alright, since we want to get a swimming pool and do other things to the backyard.  We have the room!

We are totally happy that we got some wooded land.  There is a small tiny little creek that runs along some land about 200 feet down from us, however they haven’t gotten access to that land yet, so we couldn’t pick it.  Than on second thought, we remembered mosquitoes.  That wouldn’t be fun!

This next image is the outside of the house model we chose.  One in the darker brick, which is simply stunning in real life.  It pops!  And than one of the lighter brick, which Sean loves.  And I’m starting to like. 

We get to choose all the options (brick color, vinyl, interior paint, fixtures, etc. etc) when we go to our design appointment, which is currently scheduled for April 9th.  Which is totally in less than 2 weeks! 

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! 

Right now they are telling us that it should all be ready by August.  I’m estimating closer to 6 months from now though.  A lot of people we talked to who had homes built said it usually runs longer, which is alright.  We’ve waited this long, what’s another month or two. 

So, our heads are spinning and we’ve never been happier. But, if I thought planning a wedding involved lots of decisions.  That doesn’t even come close to this!

*note: click each image for larger view

The fabulously talented folks behind ExpressionEngine went through an entire re-branding, leaving pmachine in the dust and launching an all new and quite spiffy looking Ellislab!

Why the name change?  pMachine was an outgrowth of our first, and at that time (six years ago), only product.  Both our company and software were pMachine.  A couple years later we released ExpressionEngine, which addressed some serious limitations of pMachine.  EE essentially made pM (the software) obsolete.  Our users agreed, switching to EE in droves and eventually compelling us to discontinue pM due to low sales.  Still, our company continued on as pMachine. [Source]

Congratulations to all the fine people at Ellislab.  I simply can not wait to see the other great things they will be working on in the future!

We shout from the rooftops about how much we love EE all the time.  But not only do we love EE, we also really love some of the great folks who create awesome modules for EE and than share them with the rest of us.

My absolute favorite module right this very second is Favorites!!  We’ll be launching a site shortly which is using this module.  It was the first time we incorporated it into a live site and it was really very straightforward to install and wonderful to work with.  The documentation was quite thorough and well, we just love it!  I want to figure out someway to use it on a site or two of our own. 

Thanks for this one, solspace!

I am sure that I have mentioned this somewhere along the line, but in case I haven’t, or for the newcomers, we are Mozilla users here at emtwo.  We use the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail application.  And we love both of them for too many reasons to list. 

One of my favorite things about about both of these applications is the ability to personally customize each one.  There are tons of extensions and plugins you can add-on.  Also, there are a ton of custom themes for both.  I like to change the themes every few months.  It makes me feel like my handy-dandy application is brand spanking new.  So, today I changed Thunderbird’s theme to Cross Over and Firefox to Baby Blue.

It’s the little things.