Welcome to the herd.

4th Jan

Happy new year to everyone from the Made By Hippo Team.

Now that we've started 2012, we've got lots planned for this year - some of which is still being worked out, but we thought we'd give you an idea of whats going on at Hippo Towers!

5th Dec

Our very own Ian Read, Designer extraordinaire has been fulfilling his passion for music by working with Charlatans Tim Burgess. Here's his blog post telling why.

5th Sep

Hippo is looking to increase its team!

29th Aug

Recap on the slides and notes on my recent talk at the inaugural ExpressionEngine UK 11 conference in Manchester.

23rd Jun

A constant question every time that EllisLab releases a new version of ExpressionEngine is 'Will all my addons still work'?

20th Jun

Thats right! you can win a FREE ticket to the Inaugural EEUK Conference this coming August....

6th Jun

It’s become an accepted feature for most websites in production these days, an inclusion of of a Content Management System (CMS). Allowing a site owner, editor or designer with little or no web design or HTML knowledge to easily alter images, text and content on their own site.

2nd May

A fundamental aspect of business management that can drastically affect your company’s success and consistency is budgeting.

30th Mar

So, a few days ago a government endorsed initiative named StartUp Britain was launched to much acclaim and criticism. What does it mean for existing startups and businesses and how do we benefit?

8th Mar

Today Hippo Celebrates its 1yr anniversary and boy what a year it's been!

21st Feb

So you've decided on ExpressionEngine as your CMS Framework of choice. Firstly, well done! you've made a wise choice!

13th Feb

I figured it was about time that I solicited advice and feedback from the greater community before proceeding with my next addon - the AutoInstaller.

9th Feb

We are excited to announce that we have teamed up with the amazing crew at Brilliant2 (http://www.brilliant2.com) to help develop and promote the eCommerce solution BrilliantRetail as UK Development Partners.

2nd Feb

Digital agency startup Made by Hippo LTD and Bournemouth based studio Orionesque LTD have formed an exclusive partnership in an effort to further satisfy their rapidly expanding client-base.

19th Jan

This is a 'theoretical' thought process that I have been working on and although it has been tested on a sample domain locally - there's no reason why it shouldn't work as planned.

13th Dec

A special thank you for all customers of Snippet Files...

22nd Nov

Originally built as a proof of concept in Ruby on Rails using the Twitter API and the (now defunct) Alexa Thumbnail system.

6th Oct

Grab this latest release of the ee_perm.sh shell script which automatically sets the correct permissions for each new ExpressionEngine build covers both EE1.x and EE2.1.

22nd Sep

It's always nice to add your own touch to a login screen. From basic branding, to something a bit more complex. With this basic modification, you can make the login page something unique.

1st Sep

After a tiring past 6-months putting the finishing touches on our own website, Hippo finally joins the esteemed members of the EllisLab ExpressionEngine Pro Network.

27th Jul

One of the other jobs needed for our last project was an ‘auto-check’ function whereby we could tell a user whether their chosen username was available or not *before* they signed up.

26th Jul

Setting up a multi-stage member signup process recently, whereby the user registers and then goes through a series of different screens to fulfil a number of options.

6th Jan

The following article will show you one of the many ways that you can create a multilingual or country-specific site in ExpressionEngine to deliver content specific to each language/country.

4th Nov

Here's a selection of ways to speed up development on your ExpressionEngine 1.6.x site deployment.

12th Oct

Planning Wireless Internet access for a technology conference is probably one of the hardest things that anyone will have to do. Anywhere between 200 and 600 tech-savvy people all looking to use the web and its your name/face they associate with it.

24th Aug

I’m always getting bombarded with people asking about Spam Filtering and what ‘settings’ have been changed due to the fact that their many ‘homegrown’ mailouts are going into peoples spam filters, so I’m trying this post to demystify and explain how the system all works and how you can do your bit to make sure your emails go into peoples inboxes, not spam/junk folder.