Mountaindays.net V2 at last!
After months of work, on and off, we can finally announce the launch of the new look Mountaindays!
New look mountaindays.net
I created this website over six years and it now attracts in excess of 50 thousand visitors a month. To try and keep up with the demand for reviews of books and other climbing related kit, I decided to implement the site in a content management system. This would also allow me to implement some additional dynamic functionality such as a membership and commenting scheme. Plus it also needed a new look and feel made using schematic HTML.
After much trawling around and a few false starts I settled on ExpressionEngine. This is a php based content management system build around a blogging metaphor but with a large user group. There is a free version available for individual use, I decided to purchase the personal edition, mainly to make use of some of the additional features available such as the photo gallery.
As with all new software and development environments it took some getting used to but I have to say I am very impressed with what can be acheived and the new version of ExpressionEngine looks very promising indeed. In terms of the Mountaindays rewrite, well the new design and template creation was the simple task. As with all projects of this sort, the migration of the existing content was the real time consuming job, especially seeing as the bulk of the pages were static and used table based layout.
I’ll publish a more indepth review of ExpressionEngine at a later date, right now we are off to celebrate the completion of a very long project.
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