Two sites went online today: Villamedia and De Journalist (both in Dutch). The sites are built with 1 EE installation, using the MSM. The database is huge already, because some 8 to 9 years worth of articles were imported before launch. I worked together with eend, who provided the design and xhtml/css. I did the EE implementation and JavaScript. And EE’s steady as a rock, even with 25k weblog entries…

Hiya Lodewijk,

I don’t understand Dutch but I do understand really good design when I see it. Lovely to see sites that have really good use of white space instead of liberal use of graphics. Even though I don’t understand any of the words on the page they (the pages) still pull me in to the site, testament to a really good design and site architecture.

I am guessing they are some sort of online news paper or something?

Really great work and I’m sure they will do really well for you.

Best wishes,

Mark

Mark Bowen - 28 April 2008 08:14 AM

I am guessing they are some sort of online news paper or something?

Sort of. Villamedia mostly is a collection of news and job openings for journalists. De Journalist is the site for the magazine by the same name, also focused on journalists and journalism in general.

Well you definitely should be proud of both of those sites as they really do portray professionalism in so many different ways.

Are you going to be inputting content as well or were you just in charge of the installation side of things. Will the sites be run by clients?

Again, great work on those two though. Must have been a bit of work getting 8-9 years worth of entries in I would have thought?

Best wishes,

Mark

Do tell us about your feeds page - that looks really interesting.

ruraldreams - 28 April 2008 10:20 AM

Do tell us about your feeds page - that looks really interesting.

Ah yes, the feeds. Nice choice. In a nutshell:

I’ve got an rss template set up in the template group ‘feeds’. The url looks like this:

I use php on input to analyze the uri: get all weblogs and category ids, and use them as parameters for the exp:weblog:entries tag used in the template.

Then you only need some javascript to generate the appropriate url (actually, it’ll also work with JS turned off).

Wow, this must have been a massive amount of work.
Nicely done, both of them!

Very nice indeed!

Very creative feed solution mate