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pMachine becomes EllisLab with a sexy new look

March 08th, 2007

That’s right, the repositioning has happened, take a look for yourself!
The new CodeIgniter WebsiteThe new ExpressionEngine WebsiteThe new EngineHosting Website

It’s finally happened!  Whew!  The amount of work that’s gone into this by the whole team has been tremendous, but it was so worth it.  The artist formerly known as pMachine, is now formally EllisLab.  There is also now a more clear-cut distinction and cross branding between ExpressionEngine, CodeIgniter and EngineHosting.  And each of the sites has a sexy new look.  The stunning design cross-brands us, and is a sign of things to come!

Although all of areas (EE, CI and hosting) have seen tremendous growth, the update is especially welcome for CodeIgniter in my mind, who has grown from “new kid on the block”, into one of the “must-see” PHP frameworks that automatically gets consideration for most new PHP projects.  Yeah there’s still some growing to do, but heck, its not like [http://www.zend.com]Zend[/url] has released anything except beta-versions of their framework (which is excellent by the way, but has different goals then CI).

One of my favourite new features of the website is the small area near the bottom labeled “Built on CodeIgniter”.  Over the last little while I’ve been accruing a list of sites that are (um) built with CodeIgniter.  There is some really great work going on out there.  Now we show them off a little and feature the great work of the community.

This entry was made on March 08th, 2007 @ 18:04 and filed into CodeIgniter, ExpressionEngine, Noteworthy.

Comments

Tom wrote on March 08th, 2007 @ 18:13

Very cool designs! Specially for CI! What a change !!!
Still some littles bugs but that rocks !!!

Eric wrote on March 08th, 2007 @ 18:23

Yep I totally agree.  GREAT looking sites.  Especially for CI. :)

Gilles wrote on March 08th, 2007 @ 18:49

Wow! Love them! Really sexy designs! Great work!

Yannick wrote on March 09th, 2007 @ 1:58

I really like the new site design.  Great job by all involved.

Matthew Pennell wrote on March 10th, 2007 @ 2:23

Nice job everyone (especially Jesse, who’ll be talking about the redesigns on Digital Web fairly soon) - I’ll have to get my CI app finished soon so I can get some linklove from the new footer…

Anthony M wrote on March 11th, 2007 @ 3:39

Wow, the redesigns look awesome! And EllisLab is a way better company name. I always thought that “pMachine” was a little tragic. :-)

Derek wrote on March 12th, 2007 @ 8:13

Thanks everyone for the comments!  Of course there are a few bugs that we’re working through, but you could only expect that when you launch something the scale of what EllisLab just did!  The re-brand is/was a great idea, and I think in the long run will give a bit more clarity to the “EllisLab Family” :)

Finally, the logo(s) rock my world, brilliant!

Andy wrote on March 13th, 2007 @ 23:08

wow Derek, they look gorgeous!

Ben wrote on March 14th, 2007 @ 13:40

It all looks snazz.

What’s the headline font? (“Say hello to the most flexible web..”)

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