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Ways for becoming internet bodies
- web development
- ExpressionEngine consulting
- developer partnerships
Web Development
What does your organization aim to achieve? EngagingNet collaborates with you in planning web projects that help achieve those goals.
Once the plan is clear, implemention usually involves:
- architecture
- design
- installation and configuration
- programming
- testing
- copywriting and/or editing
- training
- ongoing support and development
ExpressionEngine Consulting
To develop a new site with the renowned ExpressionEngine web publishing system or to move an existing site onto EE requires either hiring an experienced developer or doing the job in-house and relying on the support forums (which are great—that’s after all how we learned).
ExpressionEngine Consulting provides a third way. We don’t do it, you do it, but we guide you and stay by your side until the job is done. The benefits? You learn the system and minimize outsourcing costs yet also acquire an experienced EE developer for your team.
Developer Partnerships
EngagingNet is pleased to work with other web folks.
We’re often tapped for the content-management side of things, and have enjoyed working with:
- BePrivy, Portland, OR
- Blog Studio, Toronto, ON
- Deepend, Rome, Italy
- Vector Solutions, New York, NY
- WebLadyBug, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Websiteforall, Brighton, UK
Standards
EngagingNet uses these standards and software products:
- content management: ExpressionEngine
- database: MySQL
- English usage: Chicago Manual of Style
- JavaScript framework: JQuery
- map integration: Google Maps
- web server: Apache
- work management: Getting Things Done
About Us
EngagingNet is a small lean web development shop in Brighton, UK led by Adam Khan. Actually, there is no other staff. Instead, tasks are outsourced to trusted web developers and designers.
So I'd better tell you about me. I was born in Glasgow, Scotland and moved with my family to Israel. After serving in the Israel Defence Forces I attended Deep Springs College and the University of Chicago.
As well as working as a web developer I've been a technical writer at Amdocs (Israel) and an online editor at The Jerusalem Post.
I maintain these personal web sites:
Testimonials
“We hired Adam because his skill at architecting our diverse information and mapping our feature requirements to Expression Engine was immediately apparent. He did a fabulous job unlocking us from our Joomla shackles and putting us on a platform that will allow our site to serve our customers more effectively. He was extremely responsive and offered skilled insight to our concerns and offered valuable input that guided us throughout the development process. Would highly recommend Adam to anyone who needs to quickly get an EE site off the ground.”
Jon Robinson
Best Network Security, Santa Ana, CA
www.bestnetworksecurity.com
Coral Ridge Church launches new web site
Thursday, June 19th, 2008
Now online at crpc.org, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church’s new web site is authored by the church’s staff, with multimedia content such as audio files, photos, billboards and PDF documents as well as web-native news, events, activities and more. EngagingNet was tapped by WebLadyBug of Fort Lauderdale, FL to collaborate on designing and developing the content-managed site. Coral Ridge is the founding church of the Evangelism Explosion movement, which now has a presence in every nation of the world.
Bestnetworksecurity.com switches from Joomla to ExpressionEngine
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008
BestNetworkSecurity, a web site selling network security products and expertise, was running on the Joomla content management system and perplexing not only its users but even its owners. The site had various types of content, including products, vendors, seminars and articles, but all were being handled the same way. Things should be as simple as they can be, as a wise man once said, but no simpler. With the conversion to ExpressionEngine, we added enough complexity to the site architecture to simplify both its maintenance for the owners and its navigation for users.
Extreme Elements TV quits Joomla for ExpressionEngine
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Since EngagingNet doesn’t work with any content management system other than ExpressionEngine, it’s hard to say for sure whether it’s the best. But Florida-based Extreme Elements does—or rather, did: While EngagingNet built one site in EE for the adventure travel company, another agency built a second site in Joomla. After about a year Extreme Elements principal Paul Caswell threw in the towel with Joomla and asked EngagingNet to redo that second site, extremeelements.tv, in ExpressionEngine.
EngagingNet scripts “amazing” date-based calculator
Saturday, November 10th, 2007
JavaScript is touted as a disruptive technology: many tasks previously done within desktop applications are now more easily doable for JavaScript-enabled web browsers. We’ve known this was coming—it’s why Microsoft was so desperate to kill Netscape, because it feared the web browser would become the new desktop—but like all technological revolutions, the change has come more slowly than we all thought. Here’s an extremely modest example of client-side programming that EngagingNet was asked to build.
Manufacturer’s site layout fixed for IE6, IE7 browsers
Monday, May 14th, 2007
The subtle differences among web browsers can make producing HTML and CSS for a web site tedious and time-consuming. In particular, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6, which dominated the market longer than it should have, creates problems for CSS coders because it has a number of insidious bugs and does not support some important CSS directives. Web pages that render properly on less popular but more standards-compliant and modern browers, such as Firefox, do not render properly on the older IE6 (or sometimes even the new IE7 for that matter).
Extreme Elements now blazingly static
Monday, April 30th, 2007
As both a travel store and a sports media destination, traffic at extremeelements.com spikes during competition time. With the new site’s complex pages her first outing was a disappointment, the server frequently becoming overwhelmed and collapsing. A workaround entitled “publish static” now provides a blazingly fast, stable site and at least one added benefit besides.
“Perfect” new content management system for fabric fashion site
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Without a content management system, maintaining the relatively simple Carolyn Strauss Collection website had become cumbersome and time-consuming. Vector Computer Consulting sought “a way to automate this process with a Content Management System (CMS) that can take care of the entire process of uploading, resizing, and adding collections to the navigation lists.” EngagingNet provided a solution, and upon trying it Vector principal Matt Weinberg christened it “perfect”.
Archaeological Center auction #40 biggest yet
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Because this Archaeological Center auction was so unusually large, the printed catalog could not be delivered to international bidders in time, so they relied on the website alone to view lots and make pre-auction bids on them.