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(for example: http://www.packtpub.com/books)

Many popular applications, open source or commercial, have formal/printed publications. Most books are by the team behind the app.

I think EE shall also have a book. Do you think so?

Based on my limited experience with EE I find that the open-ended nature and flexibility of the system means that the current documentation of the tags and their parameters should be sufficient to allow full development of a site in EE.

However, because of the open-ended nature I know that I’m missing out on using EE to it’s full potential, mainly because there is so much potential there. Therefore the type of book that I would love to see would concentrate on several examples of sites that have been built using EE and how they’re used EE in different ways. I was going to say “have examples of best practice” but I think there would be a lot of different best practices for whatever you’re trying to achieve with EE and promoting one above the other may actually close the door to a good avenue of functionality for some site owners.

Maybe the EE community can start posting “how I built my site and how I use EE” threads in the forums, just to give examples of how things are done. At the moment, I’m recommending EE to my ex-boss for the website that she’s now managing and I’ve been sending my templates to her PHP guy to show him how I use EE. I’ll expand this and start posting. As a quick example, I use static pages module for the main content pages, the weblog module for the homepage blog and the RSS module to pull in news feeds from other sites. My forums aren’t in EE but there’s no issues there (my site is http://www.oneofus.co.uk).

Boyink’s doing a nice intro to EE site building series at his blog.

Chapter 3 just went up today. http://www.boyink.com/splaat/comments/building-an-expressionengine-site-chapter-3/

Great link AJP! That’s exactly what I was talking about. I’ll read through it and will certainly get on to writing how I did my site too.

Dang…that’s gotta be a record for shortest time between posting on my blog and getting mentioned here…;)

That’s what you get for being my Twitter friend.

Dang…that’s gotta be a record for shortest time between posting on my blog and getting mentioned here…;)

Dang… I am impressed! Just yesterday Mr. Boyink, (sorry I dont’ know your first name), was talking about writing the next chapter, but knocking it out in less than a day, that’s awesome.
Popping over there now…

Yes, and actually this third section is very good, even if at a too-quick glance it might appear as a kind of a tease.  But it isn’t - it’s a good insight to the EE Way 😉.

Helped along a lot by the explanation of certain choices you can make, I think.

Good job, Boyink!

Regards,
Clive

Dang…that’s gotta be a record for shortest time between posting on my blog and getting mentioned here…;)

Dang… I am impressed! Just yesterday Mr. Boyink, (sorry I dont’ know your first name), was talking about writing the next chapter, but knocking it out in less than a day, that’s awesome.
Popping over there now…

Heh - it’s Mike but with a last name like Boyink a first name isn’t always needed…;)

Don’t give me so much credit on writing speed - I’ve been working on these for a little each day during the week then cleaning up/finalizing/publishing on Fridays.  So far it seems to work well.

The chapter tutorials are really making so much sense to me. Do you have an overall TOC (Table of Contents) for the chapters you are thinking will cover the entire project. It really ties everything together in such a logical fashion, it’s just great so far…
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Do you have an overall TOC (Table of Contents) for the chapters you are thinking will cover the entire project.

Nope!  😉

That sounds far too much like a project plan for my style…I just plan to keep going a step at at time, and breaking it up as it makes sense. 

Chapter 3 is a good example of why I wouldn’t want to try and predict the chapter structure—I thought I’d be able to get to creating the Home page weblog and moving the content into it, but as it came out it would have been too much at one time.