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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2

By : Leonard Murphy
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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2

By: Leonard Murphy

Overview of this book

<p>ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system used by top designers and web professionals across the world to build and manage their websites. It is written in the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP, and built on the MySQL database server. Are you eager to start creating websites with ExpressionEngine?<br /><br />Written for ExpressionEngine version 2.1 and later, this book will give you clear, concise, and practical guidance to take you from the basics of setting up ExpressionEngine to developing the skills you need to create ExpressionEngine websites to be reckoned with.<br /><br />You will begin with setting up a basic installation of ExpressionEngine. You will then learn how it works, before learning how to create and manage your website in ExpressionEngine. As you progress further into the book you will learn how to build an events calendar and how to build a photo gallery and before you know it, visitors to your website will be able to post comments, search your content, sign-up for a mailing list, and even send their friends an e-mail. As you consider the benefits of buying this book, you will learn how to manage members and member groups, how to optimize your website and avoid repetition, how to remove the index.php file for cleaner URLs, and how to take backups. At the end of the book, you will learn how to update ExpressionEngine to its latest version.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Solutions to Exercises

New in this edition


ExpressionEngine 2 is a big update from ExpressionEngine 1.6. This book is also a big update from the first edition. First and foremost, the example site has changed to look and feel more professional — and more like a website you might want to build. The example website is adapted from a design by Free CSS Templates (http://www.freecsstemplates.org) and is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.

In the first edition of this book, a lot of valuable space was taken up describing HTML or CSS code. In this edition, much of the HTML and CSS will simply be provided rather than explained line-by-line, giving this edition more of a focus on ExpressionEngine itself.

Finally, ExpressionEngine 2 comes with many features that did not exist in ExpressionEngine 1.6. For example, with the introduction of snippets, how you might design and construct a website has changed. In addition, the control panel has been completely re-designed with new tools (such as an integrated file manager with built-in image-editing tools). Rest assured that this new edition has been completely re-written to show you how to work with these new features — it is not simply the first edition of the book with updated screenshots. After working through this book, you will be a pro at taking advantage of everything ExpressionEngine 2 has to offer. Enjoy!