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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

Agile Records


The example site that comes with ExpressionEngine is Agile Records — a website for a fictitious record label designed by Erskine Design (http://erskinedesign.com).

The Agile Records website is put together especially for new (and experienced) users of ExpressionEngine. In this book, we are not going to discuss how to edit or adapt the Agile Records site to your own needs, and we are not going to talk about how it is designed or put together. Rather, we are going to use Agile Records as a launching point to introduce you to some of the basics of how ExpressionEngine works.

Note

If you are interested in learning more about Agile Records, stay tuned to the ExpressionEngine blog (http://expressionengine.com/blog) for news on learning resources based on the Agile Records site.