An Introduction to ExpressionEngine

If you’re looking for a reason to invest some time and effort into learning and installing ExpressionEngine, keep reading. This article is intended for those who might already have a website, but who want to upgrade to using a content management system, or for those who might be disillusioned by their current CMS. - Sean Sperte

Sean is one of the developers behind the beautiful

Blogging with Moxie

Today we cover The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging with Moxie, a new book by Kathy and Joelle (collectively they are the powers behind Moxie Design Studios).

The video also has an unplanned “guest star”. And yes, the appearance of a small, cute child is not a marketing-weasel ploy but the result of me being placed on “Daddy duty” during the time I usually create these things. It was a ...

EE Fan Site Jambor-EE Returns with a Big Holiday Present

The amazing team behind ExpressionEngine fan site Jambor-EE.com are back bringing holiday cheer for everyone. They are doing a 24-day tutorial in which they are building a complete site in EE, showing you every step in the process. They are not building a simple site either. These ambitious folks are going all out; “we’re going to build a Social Recipe site called We Love Food ...

Case Study: Cobalt Solutions

Editors note: This is the first entry in what we hope will be a semi-regular feature on the EE Blog. Case studies are not meant to be “best practices” or “tutorials” but rather a real world look at developing an EE site under the pressures and constraints of a “client’s budgetary and design needs” as Reese so eloquently put it. Hopefully the case studies will be a way to learn from others ...

EE Tag Search, a Tip for EE Learners

Today’s tip will be amazingly obvious to some and others will smack their heads at its useful simplicity wondering how they ever developed an EE site without it. Members from both parties should feel free to share other amazingly obvious tips that might be helpful to people learning EE.

Last Week on the Forums, 9/18 to 9/25

Last week was quite busy. Lots of goodies here and as usual, add your own.

Mark released two now plugins for Pages! Pages Breadcrumbs and Pages Nested Menus.

A new plugin has surfaced for helping clean up an event calendar as iCal compatible output

Phoebe released a new plugin/extension combo for simple file uploading.

Paul shows a user how to allow ampersands in forum ...

Learn How to Learn EE in 60 Seconds

Ok, ok, so its actually 1:51 but what’s 51 seconds between friends? Here’s a PDF of the movie in case you would find such a thing useful. Have tips to add? Have a better way to learn EE? Post about it!

This movie is geared specifically toward people new to EE. Here are the resources mentioned in the movie.

Getting Started

Video Tutorials

Quick Start Tutorial

Building an ...