[TYPO3-UG US] Another Recent Site (CSLR)

[Ron Hall]

Nice work, Zach.

I think the design fits well the organization and purpose. Clean and  
easy to navigate.

It is a good TYPO3 example site because it is a deep site with a lot  
of content and functionality.

Ron


On Jun 15, 2009, at 8:40 AM, Zachary Davis, Cast Iron Coding LLC wrote:

> I like Ron's idea of posting our recent work here, and I'm going to
> follow his lead. I'm happy to say that after a three month effort, we
> launched a new site for Emory School of Law's "Center for the Study of
> Law and Religion" on Friday.
>
> http://cslr.law.emory.edu
>
> The site site is built around a number of custom database records that
> store data about publications, people, research projects, events,
> webcasts, and news. We wrote a lightweight MVC framework within TYPO3
> for this site, mainly because extbase wasn't stable enough when we
> started on it, and there are about 30 distinct views and about 10
> distinct models. The framework we wrote is carefully integrated into
> TYPO3 and follows regular TYPO3 conventions. We wrote it because  
> budget
> was a little bit tight on this project, and we needed a way to roll  
> out
> new views for the core models quickly and efficiently.
>
> There are a little over 700 publications in the database, which are
> tagged and searchable. To get a sense of how interconnected the
> different records are, I'd encourage you to click around in the  
> people,
> publications, research, and events sections.
>
> We took this project from discovery to design and implementation - we
> often don't do the design in-house, but we did on this one, and I'm
> pretty happy with the results.
>
> best,
> Zach
>
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> Zach Davis
> Cast Iron Coding - Portland OR, USA
> http://www.castironcoding.com
> zach at castironcoding.com
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