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Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6: A clear, concise, and practical guide to creating a professional ExpressionEngine website (Paperback)

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ExpressionEngine is a flexible, feature-rich content management system used by thousands of individuals, organizations, and companies to easily manage their websites. It is written in the world's most popular web scripting language, PHP, and built on the MySQL database server. This book is written for ExpressionEngine 1.6 users, although it will still be a good introduction for those using other versions.

If you're eager to start creating websites with ExpressionEngine, this is your book. This book gives you clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take you from the basics of setting up ExpressionEngine to developing the skills you need to create professional ExpressionEngine websites to be reckoned with.

This book will take you through the process of setting up a website with ExpressionEngine with the help of an example site. By creating a site for selling toast online, you will learn all the stages required for building a professional website in a plain, articulate manner.

This book is aimed at beginners new to ExpressionEngine, but will allow readers to advance rapidly up the learning curve to the point where they can tackle any task with confidence.

Once you're set up with a basic installation of ExpressionEngine, you will move on to learn about creating and managing your content, customizing the look of your site, managing users and groups, allowing visitors to post comments and feedback, building an events calendar, and building a photo gallery. The book also covers the discussion forum module, the simple commerce module, and the wiki module as well as basics such as creating search-engine friendly URLs, 404 "page not found" pages, removing the index.php file for cleaner URLs and updating ExpressionEngine to the latest version.

What you will learn from this book?

Install and set up ExpressionEngine
Manage your ExpressionEngine installation, including backups, restores, and version updates
Build a website from the ground up using ExpressionEngine
Customize the look of your site with HTML/CSS and templates to create the right impression
Create friendly URLs for your pages to be picked up by Internet search engines
Handle new user registrations, forgotten passwords, and logging in
Allow users to interact with your site using comments
Add Calendar features to your site
Display images on your site with the Photo Gallery module
Add search functionality to your site
Find out how to easily install add-ons such as plug-ins, extensions, and modules to enhance ExpressionEngine's functionality
Learn how to integrate Paypal into ExpressionEngine in order to sell goods
Get an overview of implementing the discussion forum module

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This book is a clear and enjoyable tutorial packed with carefully explained steps for constructing the example website, and information for applying the skills learned to your everyday ExpressionEngine work.

Who this book is written for?

This book is ideal for new users of ExpressionEngine. The book is targeted at people who are responsible for creating and managing a site with ExpressionEngine. It is suitable for web developers, designers, webmasters, content editors, and marketing professionals who want to develop a fully featured web presence in a simple and straightforward process.

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Paperback: 396 pages
Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 184719379X
ISBN-13: 978-1847193797
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for getting started with Expression Engine, September 19, 2008

By	ebflute "SFWebDesigner" (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I have been looking at Content Management systems for the last year and love wordpress as a blogging platform and CMS. After reading blogs from other web designers who use Wordpress for small sites, they mentioned using Expression Engine for larger, more complex projects. I became very interested in this platform and searched for a book to help me learn how to install it, administer and design for it. This book turned out to be the answer! The book is well organized with lots of screenshots, code examples, and sidenotes. The book is highly detailed with step by step instructions. It is targeted at web designers and marketing professionals so I felt that it gave me the right amount of information for the my level of experience. The book answered many questions that come to the surface such as what are the server requirements and how much space my site going will take up. The CSS presented was basic and enough to get me started to style the site with my company's branding. The book covers the tasks necessary to back up my website and how to upgrade when the time comes. The last part of the book contains exercises that helped me dig in and actually test out the code. I highly recommend this book.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A well written guide, October 8, 2008

By	John Henry Donovan (Ireland) - See all my reviews

First impressions is that it is a well written guide. The book assumes you are at a beginner level developing with ExpressionEngine and have some HTML and CSS experience. The book contains step-by-step instructions which are well organised with lots of screenshots and code examples.

The book extends the ExpressionEngine userguide and offers solutions which you may not come across readily while doing a general browse of the material currently available. It mentions specifically the 'lightbulb' moment when everything in ExpressionEngine suddenly becomes clear and practical in your mind. The book's purpose is to help you reach this goal. At the end of the book Leonard provides useful exercises that get your brain working to apply all the logic and lessons that he has tutored you on throughout the book.

The book seems to cover everything and not shy away from any components of ExpressionEngine but particular areas could have done with a bit of extending and still may have readers scratching their heads as to where it all fits in. The example site throughout the book is a pretty dire example to use. It is not a pretty example but it conveys all the practicalities an example site needs. I just thought that it would have been a really good commercial advantage having an example site that a reader could aspire to being able to build at the end of the book.

The book was released rather close to the supposed release of EE 2.0 but I don't think that will affect a lot of its content. I also think the book could have listed a few more resources. Other CMS giants which have been around a lot longer than ExpressionEngine have the advantage of having a large pile of printed and on-line training material. I think Leonard has done a great job of laying the foundations of ExpressionEngine's own unique pile.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An organized coverage of excellent web software, October 8, 2008

By	C. Rogers "Genius from Concentrate" (USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Although a lot of this book covers what you might find in the Expression Engine Wiki, it does so in a more organized fashion and gives alot of great examples and code. It not only shows you how to use Expression Engine to build sites, but goes into the administration aspects as well.

I owuld even recommend this book to those that are considering using Expression Engine, as it will really give you a good look into the features and possibilities. Expression Engine is an extremely well thought out blogging and web site software.

One note: This book covers version 1.6 and version 2.0 is due out in late 2008. Although this should not affect the use of the software, it may change some aspects of it as version 2.0 will be based upon the CodeIgnitor framework.

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