It’s that time again, though we never quite got round to finishing this theme for WordPress the redesign light has come on again! And this will be be a fairly big shift, not visually but in the platform the site will be sitting on. We have had many compliments on the site as it stands so why are we so keen to freshen up for 2010?
So what changes and why?
Well besides a slight freshen up the overall feel of the site will remain the same, we are staying dark I’m afraid! Having added a number for new services and a few more strings to our bow we need to enhance our service offerings page(s), and would like to remodel the portfolio slightly.
The other reason for the redesign happening now is that we are moving the site away from WordPress and on to ExpressionEngine, a fantastic content management solution from EllisLabs, who also produce our PHP framework of choice – CodeIgniter. In fact the new version of ExpressionEngine (version 2.0) has been completely rebuilt on CodeIgniter which was a major factor in selecting the CMS for use on client sites. At the time of writing we have two client sites that are being built on EE and having discovered what a pleasure it is to develop with, it was a natural choice for the new Moray Web Solutions website.
We are not sure how long it will be before any of the new look MWS site will appear due to a rather busy start to the year client wise, but with any luck it shouldn’t be too far away. In the meantime, standby for a post all about ExpressionEngine and why we have shifted to a commercial CMS over open source, and another post filling you in on the sites we are pushing out in the first quarter of 2010.
Finally…
Seen as this is the first post of the year, Moray Web Solutions would like to take the opportunity to thank all our customers to date for their business – and wish everyone a very prosperous 2010!
