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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


In this chapter, you have seen how to build a complete website using ExpressionEngine. You have taken advantage of many of ExpressionEngine's features to reduce repetition and make your website as simple to maintain as possible.

In the next chapter, you will learn more about channels and how you can use ExpressionEngine to turn the Frequently Asked Questions page of Ed & Eg's website into a more interactive experience for your visitors.

The key points to remember after working through this chapter are:

  • Custom fields, categories, and statuses can all be customized on a per-channel basis (or different channels can share the same custom fields, categories, or statuses). This lends itself to enormous flexibility in how you design your channel (but also means there is usually more than one way to accomplish anything in ExpressionEngine).

  • When creating a new channel, you create custom fields/statuses and categories for the new channel (optional), create the channel itself, create content...