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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

Introducing Ed & Eg


Ed & Eg are fictional financial advisors in Anytown, USA. They have a small website written in static HTML/CSS that describes their services and how to get in touch with them.

Their website currently consists of six HTML pages, one CSS styling file, and a handful of images. Although relatively simple, neither Ed nor Eg are familiar with HTML code, so they tend not to update their website.

Although this has been fine for them up to now, they want to start reaching out and interacting with existing and potential customers through their website and they have picked ExpressionEngine for the task. Soon they will see what a good choice they have made!

To download their website, you can either visit http://www.packtpub.com/support and select this book from the drop-down list for the code files, or visit http://www.leonardmurphy.com/book2/chapter4. Extract the EdEg directory into any directory on your computer. Once extracted, you can view the website by opening the index...