Posted by Adam C 
If you’re reading this on our website then welcome to our brand new website, however, if your reading this in your RSS reader, get yourselves over to our site at www.atechmedia.com to see the new things for yourself!
The new site brings together all aspects of the company under one roof (so to speak). Each of our web applications and software products now have their own mini sites and everything in contained within our main domain. With 18 different visuals for each aspect of the site and only one week to design, develop and deploy, we think we’ve done pretty well, if we do say so ourselves.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll also be launching both our client & support areas which will act as a central location for all our clients to submit tickets and access the latest support articles for our software and services. The client area is the start of our new centralised billing & account management system for all our subscription applications – in a similar style to that of 37signals – we’ll be managing signups and billing through a single platform to keep things simple for you (the customer) and us.
All the code on this site has been hand crafted by our own fair hands – we’ve built a quick blog engine and portfolio manager as well as central areas for managing application invite requests.
Please take a look around and let us know any comments you might have!
Technical Bits
Our MagicBox Gem
This site is the first of our sites to use our MagicBox ruby gem which we’ve developed to easily include core website functionality into a Rails application – for example, it adds full functionality for authentication, navigation managers, meta document inclusion and lots of extremely useful HTML helpers. I’ll post a bit more about this in the near future.
Redirecting other domains in
When we decided to bring lots of our “sub sites” into one domain, we knew we’d have to handle redirections from the old domains directly into our new site. For example, if you visited the old codebase features page, you should still receive this content and search engines should know where it has gone.
We’ve crafted a clever little redirection script which maps domains to destination controllers and performs “301 Moved Permanently” redirects as appropriate. We’ve also had to include the ability to add “exceptions” – for example, www.codebasehq.com/contact shouldn’t simply direct to www.codebasehq.com/codebase/contact because we now have a single page at www.atechmedia.com/contact, so the script has to take care of that too.