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We’ve applied the primitives of an organizational system to create the Engaging OS enterprise engine — an extensible, flexible, powerful foundation for work processing systems that power organizations.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
We imported scores of tags, hundreds of posts and members, and thousands of comments.
Friday, June 19th, 2009
After the two web sites got retrofitted with a CMS, they still appear just as before — except where Music Box wanted design changes and additional features. And now Music Box staff can regularly update them with ease.
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
We kept costs down by generating all pages from just two templates and all effects from pre-written jQuery plugins.
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Okay, so you’ve discovered the benefits of Take Control Ebooks. Within your ebook you click the “updates” link. What then?
Friday, July 10th, 2009
With this state-required report now generated automatically, CSF staff need no longer sit each year-end and perform scores of tedious manual calculations.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Th ExpressionEngine-powered salt-co.com needed to look just as it did when updated manually.
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Countryside 2010 showcases hundreds of outdoor events and activities.
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
Both the site editor and the 48,000-strong userbase get a plethora of AJAXy features.
Saturday, September 4th, 2010
The ICSEP redesign relies on “Goldens”, a CSS grid framework for the golden ratio.
Sunday, October 17th, 2010
The site now features nation-based language selection and a campaign-based layout.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
This complex and gorgeous site handles hundreds of legacy URLs, is SEO-optimized, and loads lightning fast.
Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
While upgrading from EE v1 to 2, we restructured the web sites’ data, streamlined the templates and CSS, added new design elements, and sharpened the typography.
Thursday, January 29th, 2015
Bring an entire organization online—now that is what Engaging was born to do! A role-based system makes it possible.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
The system handles re-certification for teachers at over 160 independent Florida schools.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Implementing a redesign by Shoreditch-based Mind Design, their print pedigree forced us to come up with a nice solution for handling 2-column flow on the web site.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2015
This one was a labor of love wherein the background remains dark, the panther pink.
Friday, January 8th, 2016
With the redesign, The Auditor principal David Latter said he and his team are once again gaining “much strength from [their] client-facing persona,” and that it’s given them a “new lease of energy”.
Friday, February 26th, 2016
It’s exciting to work on a web site that you already actually read. This new version is a pleasure to load, look at and read on both desktop and mobile.
Tuesday, May 9th, 2017
Since major overhauls to a web site are relatively infrequent and set the stage for years to come, they are rare and vital opportunities to step back to basics. What should the site be? What should it express? Who is it for and what should it do for them?
Wednesday, May 17th, 2017
Now we can get up close to Juan Carlos Bronstein’s paintings.
Wednesday, January 24th, 2018
This vivacious redesign for a nursery website sports the good cheer of bright colors and polka-dots but not the cliche of childish lettering.
Thursday, April 18th, 2019
Built modularly on a modern tech stack, Via Montessori showcases Montessori educational activities and articles.
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Let persons (with roles comprised of positions in sub-organizations) use screens (comprised of dashboards, consoles and ports) to work on items of concern!
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
The new content type serves Christian Schools of Florida as both public information and structured file repository.
Thursday, June 13th, 2024
A large schools association needed to handle group registrations for their year-round events. Using the Engaging OS enterprise engine, we delivered a system beyond their specifications that’s role-based and future-ready.
Wednesday, December 24th, 2025
Until now, adding new screens to an Engaging OS system meant writing code. Many screens can now be configured rather than developed, making the creation of rich interfaces startlingly easy.
Friday, February 13th, 2026
In speccing software systems, each operation that users will perform can be expressed as a sentence—an active one requiring subject, verb, object, and optional adverbials, clauses and asides. If we also model each interface where these operations occur, then we have a complete, potentially executable specification.
Thursday, March 19th, 2026
The circle is completed by powering this teacher certification system with the latest incarnation of the thinking that began with it.