How did you manage the multi column areas with ExpressionEngine? Was it two custom textfields?
Unfortunately, yes; there’s no magic going on there. Originally I was planning on writing a PHP script that breaks the text in half where appropriate, but it just wouldn’t have worked for pages like this where the column break is based on more than just the midpoint.
How did you manage the multi column areas with ExpressionEngine? Was it two custom textfields?
Unfortunately, yes; there’s no magic going on there. Originally I was planning on writing a PHP script that breaks the text in half where appropriate, but it just wouldn’t have worked for pages like this where the column break is based on more than just the midpoint.
I was wracking by brains thinking how you could have done this but as usual, the simplest way wins
PS. Are the downloadable items handled outside of EE? I think that’s a great idea.
No, just about all content (including Downloads and everything in the Knowledge Center) are managed in EE.
In this case there’s a ‘Downloads’ weblog, and each of those two-column content pages have 3 relationship fields tied to that weblog for them to choose from. (Originally I was just going to use Mark’s ‘Multi Relationship’ extension instead, but the client actually wanted to be limited to only adding up to three downloads per page.)
Same goes for ‘Key Contacts’ in the right sidebar.
I’ll have to check out those Design Reactor people.
You should! We’ve got this big “Evie Plateau Farm” project going on, and it sounds like they could use a little help!
VisualBinary - 14 March 2008 05:40 PM
You might have a slight bug with the Services menu in IE7.
I had our QA team look into your bug, but so far they haven’t found a way to repro it. Do you think you could email/PM me your OS & browser versions, and any other details you can think of that might help us find the culprit? Thank you much!
This is a recreation of Navigant’s previous “Professional Bio Database”, http://nciprofessionals.com/. It contains profiles for hundreds of their professional consultants around the world. (Thankfully, I was not tasked with data entry!!)
There are a few interesting things going on here (in my mind). The Keywords search is just a regular EE search form, but the ‘search’ template just parses through all the results, checks to see if a field p_enable_bio is set, and feeds num_results, entry_ids, and search_term to an embedded template, ‘.results’. The templates ‘browse’ and ‘filter’ both perform their own database queries (using the global $DB class) to grab the results, and feed those same three variables to ‘.results’ just like ‘search’. So, for all intents and purposes, ‘.results’ becomes very class-like, if you know what I mean.
Oh, and then there’s that whole “design” aspect… I’ve been looking forward to this day for a while just because I love the look of the section so much. Ivan Kandi, ladies and gentlemen.
I just saw this thread - fantastic looking site Brandon. That’s some awesome work. The Professionals section is beautiful! Actually, the whole site is beautiful. And that sounds like some serious back end work going on in the search.
Just a couple points of note;
1) I went into a random section under the “Browse our professionals by last name” (H), and then validated it - came back with over 100 different errors. Not sure if you’re a stickler for that, but maybe something to look into when you have the time.
2) Another small, insignificant point really - if I search on a nonsense term such as ‘bleah’, the “Your search didn’t return any results” page has obviously been themed for the site. However, if I leave the box blank and hit search, the “You did not submit a search term” page has not been themed. Like I said, a small issue really for what is truly an inspiring website.
1) I went into a random section under the “Browse our professionals by last name” (H), and then validated it - came back with over 100 different errors. Not sure if you’re a stickler for that, but maybe something to look into when you have the time.
I am, and I certainly will go through those (the rest of the site validates, at least on the XHTML side). This section was just very rushed, and I still have a lot of work to do. Just had to get something up by last night.
2) Another small, insignificant point really - if I search on a nonsense term such as ‘bleah’, the “Your search didn’t return any results” page has obviously been themed for the site. However, if I leave the box blank and hit search, the “You did not submit a search term” page has not been themed.
Yeah, it’s on the to-do list. I’ll probably at least have JS form validation up sometime today.
so what is the validator’s malfunction there, I’ld be curious to know, I don’t quite get what it would be?
Also very minutae the First H - Charles haddon the email there should probably be a .com not a .co for his mailto link?
I forgot about this site, adding it to the gallery picks for this week or next
My new hobby gallery picking 10 a week.
