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Download Content Plugin

We just pushed a new, very simple free plugin to our GitHub account.  Download Content is handy if you are using channels to manage information that you want to have available as file downloads for your visitors.  It’s essentially a very simple way to utilize CodeIgniter’s download helper within an ExpressionEngine template.  It takes arbitrary content, and sends it to the browser with the proper file type headers for download.

For example, we’re using it on our intranet to have...

Outstanding Search Engine Optimization with ExpressionEngine

Editor’s Note: Lee Goldberg is President of Marketing and Strategy at Vector Media Group in New York City. He leads the online marketing initiatives in many Vector projects, including for companies like Nielsen and About.com. Some of you may know Vector’s President of Development and Technology, Matt Weinberg, from EECI 2010 in San Francisco and EECI 2011 in Amsterdam. The vast majority of Vector’s projects are built on ExpressionEngine.

Devot:ee Launches, 16 Prizes Up for Grabs!

Devot:ee is the brainchild of ExpressionEngine Pro Net member Ryan Masuga who defines it as “a website devoted to learning, teaching, tweaking, extending, and having fun with the ExpressionEngine CMS.” So far Ryan’s made good on all those statement.

Devot-ee.com has two unique things that set it apart from the growing number of ExpressionEngine community sites. First, it has the most comprehensive collection of ExpressionEngine Add-ons anywhere (including ExpressionEngine.com). I...

ExpressionEngine Tutorial in Web Designer #156

Paramore|Redd’s Brad Haynes wrote Adding dynamic styles with CSS for Web Designer Magazine #156 available now in the UK and the US (available in print only).

The tutorial guides a person through downloading ExpressionEngine to creating pages based on Paramore|Redd’s beautiful Us section. The tutorial provides a download location for the template and the PSD. Check it out (hint, pages 56-59)!

First Party Add-ons, Train-ee, Newism Tutorial & Contest

While not sexy, the title is certainly descriptive, so let’s dig in!

Today we are pleased to report that 90%+ of all the First Party ExpressionEngine Add-ons in the Library have been converted from 1.x to 2.x. The primary goal of this task is to give EE developers plenty of 2.0 add-on conversion examples to jump start their own conversion process when the Developer Preview is released. Of course, it also ensures that any First Party Add-on you may have been relying on in 1.x is also...

Devot:ee’s 1st Annual AcademEE Award Winners

Devot:ee is Ryan’s (Masuga Design) upcoming site dedicated to “everything ExpressionEngine”. Devot:ee hasn’t officially launched yet but if you follow @devot_ee on Twitter you can get updates, such as The First Annual AcademEE Awards.

This year we came up with a few basic categories and picked the winners ourselves. The nominating and voting process for the 2008 awards was entirely not fair and subject to our whim, but next year we would like to get you involved in nominations and...

Scholarship Applications by 5pm Pacific Today

The Scholarship Applications for the January Train-ee ExpressionEngine Class are due by 5pm Pacific today (Wednesday, December 10th). The ExpressionEngine Scholarship page has all the information you need to apply.

If you know of any last minute people who haven’t applied but should or are taking their sweet time finessing their apps, give them a reminder that time is running short!

These Scholarships are made possible by Airbag Industries the EE Gurus in our Professional Network: ...Continue Reading