Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 (updated 18 Nov ’09)

adam@engaging.net | Brighton, England

Snooze rolls over to ExpressionEngine’s side of the bed

 
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nce upon a time there was a funky Brighton bed & breakfast called Snooze. In fact, Snooze was so funky that it won Runner-Up in the national AA Funkiest B&B of the Year award for 2009-2010. Snooze had a funky “OnePage” web site designed by the funky Brighton Websiteforall creative web agency that was powered by a bespoke content management system. All was well, until one day Snooze owners Paul & Tony asked to be able to sort the photo display at the site.

You see, with bespoke CMS’s, sometimes seemingly simple additions can require surprisingly significant work and expense. And this is apparently how it was for sorting photos at Snooze.

Now, since Websiteforall had already decided to standardize all client sites onto ExpressionEngine, this photo-sorting problem seemed an opportune moment to switch Snooze over to EE, particularly since Engaging.net could rebuild the entire backend — including sortable photos — for pretty much the same price as what the original developer wanted for the photo sorting feature alone.

The resulting EE site hasn’t changed much for its esteemed visitors, but underneath it now sits a very powerful engine.

The End.

That is, until Paul & Tony next call Stephen, because from now on the Snooze web site will be ready and waiting for lots more funk-tionality.

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