EE in the Wild: Darren Shan, David Gilman

This is a double feature of EE in the Wild featuring two author websites: Darren Shan and David Gilman. Both sites were developed by Frequency, a design studio in Cork, Ireland.

The Darren Shan site used to be managed without using a database or even a real CMS:

We finally convinced our long-time client, Darren Shan to convert to a CMS. He had been bravely managing his plain html site using Frontpage, Contribute and other tools completely unsuitable for managing this huge amount of content for the last ten years.

Once converted to Expression Engine we had to categorise and logically arrange this content. There are over 1200 entries on this site as Darren has almost 30 books published in over 30 countries. Almost every country has a different book cover variation. Add ten years worth of review and interviews and you can get an idea of the amount of content - which we are still in the process of porting across.

Sounds like a data migration nightmare!

From the forum post by user “Mandarax.”

We’ve just launched a brand new site for British author, David Gilman. David is the author of a series of teen books called the Danger Zone featuring intrepid hero, Max Gordon. He is also the principal screenwriter for ITV’s “A Touch of Frost” a popular detective series on British TV.

This site uses add-ons like LG Add Sitename, Solspace Freeform and Fieldframe.