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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

Modifying the Publish page layout


By default, the Publish page contains lots of options, spread across several tabs, some of which you will be unlikely to use for a given channel (such as the expiration date for an entry) and some of which you will intend to use, but will be liable to forget about (such as selecting the categories for an entry).

Luckily, as a Super Admin, you can customize the Publish page so that the workflow better suits your needs.

In the FAQs channel, you know you must select the category for a new entry, so instead of having the categories on a separate tab, you will move it to the bottom of the main tab so that you must scroll past it in order to submit your entry. In this way, you are less likely to forget to fill it in.

  1. 1. Log into the control panel as a Super Admin, and go to the Publish screen for the FAQs channel (Content | Publish | FAQs).

  2. 2. Towards the top-right (just to the left of the Notepad on the right-hand side), you should see an option that says show toolbar...