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

UnionSportsmen.org is a website for Union Workers with a love for the outdoors.  When the site web manager, Tripp Allen, asked us to take the design and code that was created by BMA Media and finesse it into ExpressionEngine we jumped at the opportunity.  We are big sports(wo)men in this family and we love to get involved with sites that offer content which we are passionate about.  Unionsportsmen.org fit that bill perfectly.

Phase One included taking the existing HTML files and porting them into ExpressionEngine, so that all their content is now dynamic and delivered through EE.  Tripp can access and maintain the site using EE’s easy and straight-forward control panel.  Everything is right there, with a click or two of the mouse. 

We’ll be continuing to work with UnionSportsmen.org on Phase Two of their site, which will include some modifications and customization to the discussion forum.

Feel free to read more about this project on Tripp’s blog, where he goes into a bit of detail about some of the geeky features that were implemented into the site and EE. 

I guess you could say that I’ve been keeping my husband busy He’s got a slew of development work going on right now and I thought I’d put together a little sneak peek at what he’s working on. 

Two of the sites should be launching later this week.  Both personal blogs (top left and bottom right).  The other two (top right and bottom left) sites won’t be launching for at least another two weeks. 

All of them were a blast to work on and I can’t wait to see my mockups come to life.  It’s really fun to watch!

Check back later this week to see the whole picture

I’m very excited to announce the relaunch of Simply Blog by the folks at SimplyHired. 

SimplyHired contaced me to discuss the redesign of their blog.  They had all of the design specifications worked out and they needed someone who could code their design for Movabletype. 

I took their Photoshop files, sliced and diced them, and then went into a coding frenzy.  With the help of a few plugins and a few bits of customized code everything came together nicely.  The site, prior to the importing of the old blog entries, is fully standards compliant and renders the same across mulitple browsers. 

I was pleasantly surprised when I began working with the newest release of Movabletype.  There had been some significant changes in the overall backend structure, and some really nice additions like the ability to tag entries and some much needed spam filtering.  I also found an assortment of useful plugins available from various developers.  My favorite one being the CustomFields plugin, which I hope to eventually see in future version of Movabletype.  I originally started blogging with MT years ago, and it’s nice to know the people at Sixapart are still vigorously developing their software.

This project was really fun to work on and one where I got to try out different techniques and also learn some new ones.  I found that the people behind SimplyHired are really down-to-earth, friendly and pretty damn cool. 

So, if you are looking for a job or if you are trying to fill a position you currently have available...go check them out!