EE in the Wild: Frist Center

Paramore|Redd had a chance to do revisit their original work with the Frist Center and redesign the site they worked on previously.

This time around we wanted to give visitors a better sense of all the activity that occurs at the Center. They have exhibitions, music, galas, events, theatre, classes and much more. Read on to understand how we took a fresh look at presenting this content to allow the site’s visitors to grasp all that The Frist offers.

In their blog post on the topic, you read through the thinking in their design process. Yesterday, however, their senior developer Jesse Bunch posted a follow-up to include more information on how they used ExpressionEngine to help them see through those original design goals and develop the Frist Center website.

Jesse used a custom callout module to “control the ordering of the call-outs, embed media directly in the call-out, and support some slightly complex filtering/pagination” and used “a cocktail of strategic Channels and Pixel and Tonic’s Playa module” to create flexible navigation.

He included a lot of detail (don’t even think about skipping over item 4) and some screenshots of the control panel, so be sure to read the entire write-up.