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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

Creating content


Now that you are more familiar with the control panel, the next step is to create your first post. In ExpressionEngine, content is stored in channels. A website might have one or more channels of content (in the same way that different television channels have different content) and over the course of this book, we will create all sorts of channels for different purposes.

The Agile Records website has two channels — Information Pages and News. Each channel is used for two types of content — the Information Pages channel is used for the Staff Profiles and the About the Label posting on the About page (categories are used to distinguish the Staff Profile entries). The News channel is used for both news and for band information on the main page. To keep things simple, we will post to the News channel so that the entry appears on the main page.

  1. 1. Whenever you want to create new content, from the main page of the control panel, you can simply click on Create Entry and then...