If you are looking to develop a website for your organization, choose Expression Engine (EE), a CMS that offers one of the strictest security measures for website content and users. It provides various built-in frameworks and support for third-party security features such as Captcha checks (a plugin that determines whether or not a comment is computer generated), content approval, email verification, and audit trail. As a web development platform, it is adaptable to a wide variety of uses. It is suitable for community-oriented websites such as community service groups, religious institutions, restaurants, and schools. It can be used for professional services such as engineering firms, lawyers, accountants, architects, and designers. It has also been the tool of choice for some news portals, government service websites and corporate intranets. Examples include TheMalaysianInsider.com and Arkansas.gov.
Reasons to choose EE
Both developers and customers cite the following reasons why they prefer Expression Engine:
User security. In addition to the security features mentioned above, EE also supports plugins for user security, such as login history and Secure Sockets Layer support. To help you manage your users’ activities, you can also assign multiple administrators, request member activation, create member groups, and manage user profiles.
Strong support. Another standout feature of EE is its dedicated technical support team, which is always ready to provide assistance. Other popular commercially available CMS only have their official forums to provide technical help.
Highly stretchable. There are thousands of extensions and plugins available for download, both free and paid. EE’s active online community generates more every day. All of this, coupled with its ability to support third-party extensions and plugins, means the possibilities are beyond imagination for this CMS. Whether it’s for a personal blog site, e-commerce, community forums, or your company’s extranet, chances are there are corresponding plugins available for it. If you can’t get what you need, your Expression Engine programmer can create one from scratch.
Easy to use. Thanks to the easy-to-use control panel, all you need to focus on, as the owner and manager of your website, is creating great web content. Use the panel’s robust features like admin logs, searchable content forums, site membership, data export, and a blacklist and whitelist module to manage your content.
EE Success Story
A bakery/school in England was running a loss on their previous e-commerce platform-based website when they contacted a local web development company to fix their problem. The developer determined that although their website looked elegant from the start, it did not fully meet the owners’ requirements. He thought the website didn’t have the features to support the company’s unique services. He classified the business as just another seller of goods, when in reality they offered catering services and baking classes in addition to selling custom cakes and cakes for special celebrations.
To give each service the necessary functions on their designated pages, while keeping the entire website in a consistent theme and controllable by a single panel, the developer recommended three modules that were only available in the US. One of them, called the Expresso Store, had a highly organized stock management function. They also integrated Google Analytics eCommerce tracking, which helped them further stabilize their design by identifying pain points in the shopping system.
By properly categorizing and giving the appropriate treatment to each segment of the bakery/school, Expression Engine saved owners from financial ruin that could have caused them to abandon a lucrative source of income. They are happy to report that their year-over-year income comparison is more than six times higher now than it was in the same month last year.
The Expression Engine development company stated that it is EE’s ability to preserve the unique identity of each business that convinced them to select it for their client.
Choose Expression Engine for top-of-the-line security, solid technical support, and a wide range of options for your CMS-based website. Contact an Expression Engine developer today!