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