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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

Photo gallery add-ons


In this chapter, you have walked through how to build a photo gallery in ExpressionEngine without using any third party add-ons. As you can see, the functionality in ExpressionEngine is very robust and flexible out of the box.

That said, there are times when an add-on can be useful — especially if images are a large part of the content of your website. Pixel & Tonic's Matrix was already mentioned at the beginning of the chapter as a useful add-on for designing a photo gallery with multiple photos per channel entry. In addition, the following add-ons are specific to editing photos (though they are by no means representative of all the add-ons that are available. Please see Chapter 10, Extending ExpressionEngine for more information on the wide variety of add-ons that are available.).

Image sizer

http://devot-ee.com/add-ons/image-sizer/

Written by David Rencher, this plugin takes a large image, dynamically resizes it, and caches the resized image (to reduce page load...