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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

Publishing your first set of questions


You have a channel created, complete with custom fields and categories. The next step is to publish some entries so that there are some entries to work with when you start building the templates that will display your channel content. Take the initial questions from the existing questions.html page in the original Ed & Eg website that you downloaded in Chapter 4.

  1. 1. From the top menu, select Content, Publish, and then FAQs. Title your first question Living Paycheck to Paycheck with a URL Title of living_paycheck_to_paycheck.

  2. 2. Open questions.html in your browser and copy the text of the question and the answer into your channel. Do not copy any of the HTML (such as paragraph tags). Also, do not copy the Q: or A: and do not worry about putting the question in italics — this can be done at the template level to save you from having to remember to do it for each and every question. Do go ahead and apply any italics in the answer by highlighting the...