It is with great pleasure that I announce Enotes 6.0. This is the 6th major iteration of the site since I’ve come on board and is by far the largest undertaking thus far. This iteration includes, in no particular order, the following upgrades.
- Completely redesigned by PBDH
- Expanded the content catalogue by over 20,000 articles
- All code is PHP5
E_STRICTcompliant (except the code in PEAR) - Moved to a monthly subscription model
- Added thousands of lines of code, stylesheets, HTML and XSLT
- Numerous other enhancements, tweaks and upgrades
It’s taken our developer team just over four months to take this from concept to reality. This has included upgrading to PHP5 (no small feat when you have 60,000 lines of code that are all PHP4 OOP), installing and configuring additional webservers, installing and configuring a Google Search Appliance, completely rewriting the shopping cart and creating an automated rebilling system from scratch.
Needless to say this wasn’t a one man show. I’d especially like to thank Ian and Matt for putting in extra hours to make sure we launched before the new semester. The team at PBDH deserves many thanks for their prompt and professional design services. And, finally, I’d like to thank caffeine. Without our beloved coffee Brad, Alex, Heather, Brandi, Ian, Matthew and myself would have passed out a long time ago.
For comparison here is a screenshot of the old site.
I love the new look, the backend changes are probably going to make your life soooooo much easier.
~J
‘course the first thing I did was search for a misc. topic … I chose MVC and it pop’d up a page saying: “Searching for: “MVC”” …. and then never told me it couldn’t find anything.
~J