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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

Summary


You have now seen some of the most basic features of ExpressionEngine, including templates, channels, and tags.

In the next chapter, we will introduce Ed & Eg — the example site we will use for the rest of the book. You will see how ExpressionEngine can be used for an entire website and how, by using ExpressionEngine, you can make it much easier for anyone to make editorial changes without ever seeing (or knowing) HTML.

The key points to remember after working through this chapter:

  • Content is stored in channels. This includes any kind of content that you might want to store — photos for your photo gallery, posts on your blog, or the text of your website. Be imaginative!

  • Templates make up the basic structure of your website, and for the most part your URLs will match your template structure. Within templates, you can write standard HTML and CSS. The stronger your HTML skills, the better your site will look.

  • Before the content of a channel appears on your website, it must be included...