Up and Coming

    Systems Creative relies on our own proprietary toolset to make our websets, called SCTools. It's pretty similar to Drupal or Joomla, with the exception that we find SCTools far easier to maintain and work with. Our current site (version 4) is built on SCTools and relies on that framework for everything, including our admin panel that has our business management module installed.

A useful tip for cleaner PHP urls: use apache's mod_rewrite to fix em up. I added in some very helpful commentary from the drupal source:

  RewriteEngine on
  # Modify the RewriteBase if you are using your site in a subdirectory or in a
  # VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
  # For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
  # modify the following line:
  # RewriteBase /drupal
  #
  # If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
  # uncomment the following line:
  # RewriteBase /

  # Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

Next week we'll be breaking down our design process, and show you what goes on behind the scenes when coming up with designs for clients.