Excel Publishing

B&E is one of Excel's many sites, and runs on Joomla. It is one of the largest news sites for the UK Construction industry.

This site makes use of FlexContent module for Joomla, which was developed specifically to allow for better customisation of Joomla output. The module was then improved and extended for a range of Excel sites, and used by a number of third party sites.

One of Excel's many sites, EN for Business was originally built in Joomla, then migrated to Drupal (well, technically, is being migrated to Drupal - was supposed to have moved by now, but got delayed due to swine flu...)

It's a complex site with a lot of content types defined, each with particular behaviours and quirks. Among other things, it makes use of custom layouts through Panels, Taxonomy Image and Taxonomy Redirect for doing some fancy looking sections, and a whole pile of caching to bring it up to speed.

One of Excel's many sites, TiC was designed from the ground up to be user-friendly, taking lots of UI guidance into account. It was also the first Excel site to be designed without the aid of a designer - the logo was made for another purpose, which I then adjusted and turned into a full site design.

It makes extensive use of Views and ImageCache, as well as feeding post information to a Twitter stream.