Friday, January 9th, 2009 (updated 26 Sep ’09)

Adam Khan | Brighton, England

Deploying ExpressionEngine for a French charity gateway

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ow standardized on ExpressionEngine for content management, Brighton-based creative web agency Websiteforall won the assignment to build Email Solidaire, a new web site on French charitable giving. The site’s owners, Paris-based internet marketers B2D1, wanted the ability to manage content themselves, mainly to add and edit charitable organizations and news stories about them.

Email Solidaire homepage

 

After designing the site, Websiteforall principal Stephen James handed the HTML/CSS/Javascript files to Engaging.net and we converted them into ExpressionEngine templates and built the ExpressionEngine deployment to support them.

The work went quickly and the B2D1 folks were pleased with the results.

Update: The site is beginning to gain attention, with a mention in Marie Claire, “L’e-mail solidaire : un nouveau moyen d’aider !”.