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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

Creating your FAQ templates


Earlier in the chapter, you learned about single-entry versus multiple-entry pages. However, in reality, a channel with more than a handful of entries needs more than one multiple-entry page to keep the number of entries on each page down to a digestible number for your visitors. ExpressionEngine, therefore, offers you three ways to organize your multiple-entry page content:

  1. 1. By Category: Organizing your entries by category involves having a category page for each category. On that page, only the entries in that category are displayed.

  2. 2. By Date: Organizing your content by date creates an archive page for each month, with only the entries in each month displayed. This technique can be combined with a mini-calendar so that visitors can select a month or even a specific day and see only the entries from that timeframe.

  3. 3. By Pagination (showing 10 entries per page): There are two types of pagination — one that shows how many pages there are and allows you to jump...