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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

Chapter 10. Extending ExpressionEngine

So far, this book has taken a step-by-step approach to implementing the most popular modules in ExpressionEngine. In this chapter, you will not be building content for Ed & Eg's website, but rather looking at what else goes into maintaining an ExpressionEngine website.

First, you will learn about essential maintenance tasks such as backups, restores, and upgrades. You will then be introduced to many of the most highly-rated add-ons that are available for ExpressionEngine before finally getting an overview of ExpressionEngine's spam controls, as well as ways to fine-tune ExpressionEngine.

After completing this chapter (and the book), you will feel confident creating and maintaining an ExpressionEngine-powered website.