ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide [Paperback]

Ryan Irelan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 17, 2010 | ISBN-10: 1934356522 | ISBN-13: 978-1934356524 | Edition: 1

In this book, noted expert Ryan Irelan walks you through creating an online news site, Engine City Times. You'll get hands-on experience working with dynamic content, categories, an RSS feed, site search, and more as you build your news site.

You'll further improve your ExpressionEngine skills with advanced techniques for creating powerful and manageable templates, effectively managing site files and assets, and optimizing your ExpressionEngine website to handle thousands of visitors. Go beyond the native ExpressionEngine functionality and customize the system through the use of add-ons. You'll discover how add-ons can help you build better websites, and you'll also build your own add-ons from scratch.

Whether you're a web designer, web developer, or web master, this book will get you up to speed quickly building sites with ExpressionEngine.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Ryan Irelan is the technology and development director at Happy Cog West, a web design and development firm in San Francisco. He is a noted ExpressionEngine expert, having created a wildly popular video training series on ExpressionEngine. Additionally, Ryan is the publisher of EE Insider, a well-known news and information site for the ExpressionEngine community. In his spare time, Ryan is the production director of A List Apart Magazine, which is one of the most popular ExpressionEngine-powered sites on the web.

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; 1 edition (April 17, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934356522
• ISBN-13: 978-1934356524
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #454,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ryan Irelan is a Technology and Development Director at Happy Cog, a web design and development firm in San Francisco. He is a noted ExpressionEngine expert, having created a wildly popular video training series on ExpressionEngine. Additionally, Ryan is the publisher of EE Insider, a well-known news and information site for the ExpressionEngine community. Through his company Mijingo, Ryan publishes training materials for web designers and web developers.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For a Quick Start with EE 2.0, start here., July 4, 2010

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J. David Evans (Austin, TX USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide (Paperback)

I picked up Ryan's book after reading his free online edition of "Chapter 5: Making the Pages." Because that chapter perfectly answered my question, it seemed the rest of the book would be useful too. And, it was!

Ryan's book covers installation and basic concepts, and provides an introduction to some of Expression Engines new advanced features as well. The book takes readers through an example setup that is sufficiently detailed: The coding techniques he shows, while basic (which is exactly what you want in a Quick Start Guide), are also very good examples of how to properly write code. The book is written so that you don't have to read the whole thing, either, something he explains in the opening "How to Read This Book."

I highly recommend this book for people looking to get started using Expression Engine 2.0. This new EE (major) release is really well done and worth looking at as an alternative when considering a publishing platform. Ryan's book will help you get started quickly, the right way.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Does the job, November 24, 2010

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R. Ashby - See all my reviews
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This review is from: ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide (Paperback)

This was my first EE2 book as a newbie developer. It certainly does what it says- it quickly gets you going with the basics of EE, and it keeps things simple enough so you can follow without scratching your head too much.

Negatives:

- Buggy code samples. Silver lining: I learned a lot about EE's inner workings!

- Hard to read/scan because there's so much prose. Quite frustrating at times- a better structure would help

- Errors in the text, and it looks like it wasn't proof read or built with a structure in mind

All in all it's a good book and does what it sets out to but you'll need more than this to master the basics. If you want more read Michael Boyink's EE2 book.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Covers all aspects of ExpressionEngine2, September 19, 2010

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: ExpressionEngine 2: A Quick-Start Guide (Paperback)

ExpressionEngine2: A Quick-Start Guide covers all aspects of ExpressionEngine2, from installation to familiar and little-known options. Any library catering to website developers will find this a fine guide, offering a quick way of mastering ExpressionEngine2 and teaching the skills needed to create and manipulate templates, optimize a site's performance, and more.