EE in the Wild: Rinnai

Gas appliance manufacturer Rinnai recently launched a new US site and it is built with ExpressionEngine. Matthew Krivanek was kind enough to post to the EE forums with some details.

One thing I’d like to highlight on our implementation is how we used Brandon Kelly’s Playa extension. All throughout the site there are callouts (ex: http://www.rinnai.us/tankless-water-heater/ on the right side). We created a weblog called ‘Callouts’ and stored each of the callouts used there. Then, on our Static Pages weblog, we created a relationship to the Callouts weblog using Playa. This enabled us to dynamically assign callouts on a page specific basis.

Matthew goes on to explain how they created collections of callouts so the “administrator could setup a set of callouts to be reused throughout the site.”

Add-ons by Leevi Graham and Brandon Kelly dominate the list of those used. Read the entire forum post for all of the details.