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http://holler.ie

I (John Henry Donovan) am currently a freelance web-designer/developer residing in Cork, Ireland. I have been in the game for about 15 years. I originally trained as an product designer and since then went on to do print, multimedia and even film at one stage. I also work as a Technical Support Specialist with EllisLab.

I have been using EllisLab products since pMachine days and slowly graduated up to ExpressionEngine which was about 2004 I think.

Holler is a personal project. I have always wanted to put more oompfh behind what I was selling as an email campaign solution. I wanted to be able to market the product and push the design service I provide but also keep it separate from my current design services. Much of it I wanted automated like account creation, inquiries, etc

ExpressionEngine was a no-brainer. I am already running the development version of my business site with EE2 and it only seemed natural to add holler.ie as an MSM site to this install. Benefits here include being able to pull up-to-date information from Holler to include in my main site. I find working within the EE2 control panel like second nature now. Extending EE has got a lot easier since the arrival of EE2.x and somebody like me who knows a bit of everything and not a lot of everything found creating add-on functionality a walk in the park

The backbone of Holler is a combination of Structure and Matrix. They suit Holler’s content extremely well and when it comes to shuffling around information and adding new content it becomes a painless process. Take the slideshow on the frontpage for example. This was one entry with a with one Matrix field. Such a timesaver. I also knew SEO was going to play a huge factor also so I have the Sitemap Module and Leevi’s Better Meta installed.

Users creating their own trial account with the software was something I wanted to do through EE. So for this I use Solspace’s User module. As I was using a third-party API I wrote an extension that would create a Holler demo account, set rates and add a demo template.

Honestly the hardest part of the development of this site has been writing the actual copy. As far as templates and backend set-up EE2 has improved enormously and halved the time it took to create this site

Other Add-ons

sitemap, NSM Morphine theme

Company: John Henry Donovan

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