EE in the Wild: The Morning News
A redesign of The Morning News launched yesterday and, yes, it is running ExpressionEngine (handy work by Matt Weinberg and his Vector Media Group).
Matt Weinberg filled EE Insider in on some more details. They ended up migrating thousands of entries (over 11,000 URLs) and really focused on making the site easy to use from an editorial perspective:
Editorially we’re giving them lots of control to be able to create the gorgeous article pages that Jason Santa Maria designed, such as this:
http://www.themorningnews.org/article/the-man-behind-the-window
Note the customized blue “highlight” color, chosen separately on each feature; the divider stars that they don’t need to manually write HTML for; the different styles and completely arbitrary/controlled by them placement of pullquotes, without them having to deal with writing the HTML.
Another great content site makes the move. Welcome, The Morning News.
Posted on Jul 12, 2011 by Ryan Irelan
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BB — 15:53 on 07.13.2011
Nice design, great for a newbie to EE like me to see the simple structure. I love the way the Tags work - how did you achieve that? Solspace Tags module?
Matt Weinberg — 12:39 on 07.14.2011
Hi BB! Yes, we’re using the Solspace Module, with a few enhancements and custom plugins to help handle some of the unique navigation and content requirements.
David Millsaps — 12:06 on 07.24.2011
Matt- How did you do the pullquote placement? I feel like inline placement and the control of it is still the big hole in EE content managment.
Beautiful work- I think we are going to see many more 1 column sites as we move away from pixel based design.
Matt Weinberg — 02:04 on 07.25.2011
Hi David,
We did it with a mix of Matrix, some replace plugins, and a bit of custom work. It’s something a lot of people have been asking us about and may possible be worth a longer write-up.
Thanks for your comments!
-Matt