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Site Relaunch - Burco

April 13, 2008 in Boyink Interactive News
Short URL: http://boyink.me/s/3835

Well, this is a first for me—I’m pleased to announce the relaunch of a site that I relaunched in the past - http://www.burcoinc.com.

When I first started Boyink Interactive some six years ago now, Burco was one of my first clients.  The site was done - by client request - in MS Frontpage.  Their hope at the time was that they’d be able to make changes to it internally, but as time went on that never really happened.  The intermingling of content and design in the FrontPage interface was both overwhelming to get through and risky - one wrong mouse click and you could delete the entire navigation bar from that page.

So I was happy to re-pitch the project and catch them up to current technology when it comes to small business sites, and get them implemented on a database-driven site using ExpressionEngine.

The design was provided by Burco’s current graphics designer, and Boyink Interactive did the ExpressionEngine implementation.  The site is driven by 8 EE weblogs, and all navigation is created through the use of EE’s relationships.  The locations functionality and the online catalog are handled through the use of an iFrame - this approach let us build and host the site externally while leaving some current business applications and work processes in place.

Currently in development is a consumer-oriented version of the site, which will use ExpressionEngine’s Multi-Site Manager to allow Burco to manage both sites from one EE install.

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  1. Naomi Niles on April 14, 2008

    It’s a nice site. Well done!

  2. Mike Boyink (Author) on April 14, 2008

    Thanks Naomi!  You guys have some beautiful work on your site as well!

  3. Ty (tzmedia) on April 14, 2008

    Hey I really like their graphic layout then.
    What shows up in the orange outlined box next to the far left nav are the relationship menu items then, I’m guessing?


    Love that Redi Tape, it’s so MacGuyver!

  4. Simon Cox on April 27, 2008

    Mike, i would be interested to know why and how you set up the navigation using EE relationships. Perhaps that would make a good little tutorial on how to set up navigation in EE - I know it was one of the things that took me a lot of (too much!) time to get my head around.

  5. Mike Boyink (Author) on April 27, 2008

    cough .

    ;)

  6. Simon Cox on April 27, 2008

    ...which I have actually read…doh!  Thanks. :)

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