Posted by Monique Olivera | July 9th, 2012 | No Comments »
In this final training session, we tackled more addons – both free and paid – and other built in features of ExpressionEngine to finalize our new site and improve the backend. Here are some more default features in ExpressionEngine. Default Contact Form The user guide has instructions on how to implement a default contact form [...]
Posted by Monique Olivera | July 7th, 2012 | No Comments »
This training session has hit the bread and butter of ExpressionEngine and we went over several built in features. What a relief – so far I had thought EE was a skinny skeleton. Built in Search Functionality Simple Search Capability EE offers built in search functionality. It’s a straightforward process, just a matter of adding [...]
Posted by Monique Olivera | June 27th, 2012 | No Comments »
Lesson 4 jumped right into template construction with ExpressionEngine. As I mentioned before, the process is similar to a PHP/Wordpress site, pulling includes and dynamic data through ExpressioneEngine template tags. Template tags are “variable” names enclosed in brackets that allows synchronization between the final html doc and the data included in the backend. Syntax is [...]
Posted by Monique Olivera | June 21st, 2012 | No Comments »
Our third ExpressionEngine training class started with mention that would be fast-paced. With this teacher, I wasn’t sure how much faster could it be! In the beginning of our class, an interesting Q & A by a concerned PHP developer ensued; he (as we all) was curious about the ease of integration between PHP and [...]
Posted by Monique Olivera | June 20th, 2012 | No Comments »
In the second Creat-ee training session of ExpressionEngine unlike the theorical first class, we jumped right into real-world practice and how to create Channels, Categories and entries, basically all the bits and pieces that make up a website. I now realize the astounding size of the underground mafia behind ExpressionEngine. Since ExpressionEngine is fairly new [...]
Posted by Monique Olivera | June 18th, 2012 | No Comments »
Since joining Atilus I have come across another web developing platform named ExpressionEngine which has been used in the past for several clients. For me to successfully implement a brand new website in this system, I decided to dive head-on into a training class offered by Creat//ee – specialized tutorials developed by a team of [...]
