Overall Satisfaction with ExpressionEngine
ExpressionEngine powers our college's main web site as well as online training modules, event and ancillary sites. ExpressionEngine's flexibility allows us to publish a variety of content types and designs to our web site and other internal systems. User control and access to manage, update, and approve content changes is also a great benefit.
- ExpressionEngine has no preconceived ideas about how your content should look or what code is generated.
- A robust template engine makes integrating designs and content a breeze.
- The control panel can be customized to control what content managers have access to.
- The upgrade process can be tedious if your site uses more than a couple of add-ons.
- Back ups must be managed manually or by a third party system/add-on.
- Quicker turnaround for new features and/or micro-sites.
- Quicker content updates now that managers can update their own content.
- WordPress,Joomla!,Mambo
ExpressionEngine is vastly more flexible than any other content management system I have used to date and the quality of the add-ons are significantly higher than what you find in other directories. The ExpressionEngine community is also very willing and helpful with if you have any questions or run into any issues.
ExpressionEngine Feature Ratings
Using ExpressionEngine
15 - Department heads or assistants regularly login to submit content updates for approval.
1 - We have one web developer that manages ExpressionEngine. The skills required for this include experience with web servers and/or hosting environments, FTP, git (recommended), HTML, CSS, Javascript, and other related web technologies.
- Central content repository.
- Content update workflow and approvals.
ExpressionEngine Implementation
- Professional services company
Paramore Digital of Nashville, TN was hired to implement ExpressionEngine, redesign the web site and work with us to migrate content.
Yes -
- Discovery/Strategy: to gather information about our needs and form a plan of action.
- Information Architecture: Develop a Site-Map.
- Homepage Wireframe/Design
- Interior Wireframe/Design
- Front-End Development: Coding the design.
- Back-End Development: Installing and configuring software.
- Quality Control: Review the site in a test environment to ensure all features and content was in place and functional.
- Launch: Migrate site from test servers to live servers.
- Gathering updated and/or accurate content from internal departments.
- Communication with the service provider had to be scheduled and was often difficult to feel like we were on the same page.
- The service provider was reluctant to give super-admin access to the control panel.
Using ExpressionEngine
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Well integrated Consistent Convenient Feel confident using | Slow to learn Lots to learn |
- Login
- User management
- Templating
- Upgrades, if many add-ons are installed