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Why do you love ExpressionEngine? I’ve always wondered what people who don’t code love about EE, since I’m in the boat of “code-my-own-layouts.”

What do you mean by code? HTML and CSS? PHP? MySQL?

Whoops, I meant XHTML/CSS. Though anyone in general is welcome to respond. I wuvs XHTML/CSS and PHP though I haven’t needed to work with EE itself (whoever did the backend makes me weep).

*echo*

OK, let me include designers then. What do your clients love about EE? Everything I love about it has to do with code (it’s BEAUTIFUL), so that’s why I’m curious.

bobby

Heh. I can try to answer this… I do not “code”. I have learned a few things here and there, and hope to pick up at least CSS eventually, but I don’t have the time to devote. I have been able to learn EE pretty well though, with little effort. Since my blog was built and designed I have added a ton of plugins, extensions, and a few modules without help. EE tags are easy for me to understand and add to the site. I created new functional templates that use the design, but call different information, added all the code to use EE to podcast (okay, a friend helped with that), created a new site (link-tastic) that pulls only one category off the main blog and with the help of templates offered on the EE site did that on my own! I also set up my own photo gallery and made it reflect the design created for me by a pro using EE’s gallery module and templating system.

With out being able to code, EE has let me do a lot! And introduced me to another side of blogging that I enjoy a lot! The back end! Oh, and there’s hardly ever a spam comment issue… 😉