Thread

http://jfleetdesigns.com

This one could have probably been handled a bit more easily in EE, but for ease of transition we moved to MM.

Somewhere around 50 pages, nine templates, using the MM pagelist tag for the navigation, and the Outfielder add-on to keep the titles short in the admin section and still keep the SEO guy happy with the displayed titles.

That’s quite the impressive site for Mojo! Congrats.

And glad Outfielder was useful for you!

Brennan,
Congrats - that’s a beautiful site!  Really shows what’s possible with MojoMotor.

-Aaron

This thing is enormous. Good work.

Dan

Wow that’s great. Good to know that it is flexible enough to something as large. Well done.

It is really big. I think it’s probably at the upward end of what’s practical with MM. There are a lot of bits here that would have been better handled in EE, but for a number of reasons the client preferred this approach. The only difficulty was really maintaining changes to the header and the footer across so many templates. In the future I’ll use one of the new add-ons that allow you to embed templates inside other templates to avoid having to make so many changes.

:: whistles ::

Amazing work Brennan, stunning. Thanks for sharing!

Curious…I noticed the order form and such are actual PHP files.  Did you pull in the layouts and parse them in the script, or did you have to have an external template file?

Dan

Dan: I’m just using a file for the form page. The form is entirely static and letting the client dig into it seemed like trouble to me. It was enough of a headache writing it the first time around. So the “Ordering Information” page is outside of MM, when it’s submitted, it’s processed outside of MM, and then redirects to a Thank You page that’s handled with MM.

Brennan the site looks great,

is the blog based on MM as well?

The blog is handled with Wordpress. They had an existing blog and kept it there. I think two systems in this case makes sense. Using WP as a CMS is horrid, but it’s not bad as a simple blogging engine, and it’s free.

I’ve seen the add-ons to use MM as a blog, but I worry about running into the same trap with MM that a lot of WP developers do, which is trying to use a tool for much more than it was designed for.

I think a toolkit of MojoMotor for static pages, WP for blogging, Google Calendars for an event calendar and maybe Flickr for a photo gallery could do a wonderful job handling sites that aren’t big enough to take advantage of EE. All of those systems have (fairly) usable API’s, so it seems like it should be fairly easy to write add-ons to bring that content into MM, without muddying up the simplicity of creating content in each of those separate systems.

The problem I see with that is if you have a site with static pages, a blog, a photo gallery, and an event calendar, or even any 3 of those, clients have to log in to 3 (or 4 or 5) separate place to manage their site. If I had a project with more than 2 of those, I’d just go straight to EE.

Basically: I have already been swayed to the fiscal doomsayers with regards to the marketplace. Has anyone discovered a ray of belief throughout this “recession”?