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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

Image editing features


Now that you have gone through the process of creating a photo gallery, uploading images, and creating the corresponding templates, it is a good time to discuss how photos can be cropped, resized, and rotated all from within ExpressionEngine.

  1. 1. From the Content menu in the control panel, select File Manager.

  2. 2. If you have multiple upload destinations, it is good to know that if you click on the title of one (such as About), it will collapse the list of files. If you click again, the file list will expand. This can help reduce screen clutter.

  3. 3. If you select a filename (such as local6.jpg), a FancyBox pop-up will appear with the full size image. (Press escape or click the x in the top-right to close).

  4. 4. For the photo local6.jpg, select Edit (in the fifth column from the left).

  5. 5. At the top-right, there are three modes (Crop, Resize, and Rotate). Select Crop Mode.

  6. 6. The picture on the left will darken. To crop the photo, you can drag the rectangle over the picture...