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Being a relative new user to ExpressionEngine, I’ve been seeking some resources on how about to learn the darn thing, but had some trouble finding some comprehensive websites for it. With that in mind, I thought it would be nice to have a post to just link to articles, and websites dedicated to learning ExpressionEngine.

I’m probably more technically declined than most of you here, as I only have a basic understanding of PHP and MySQL.. I don’t know OOP whatsoever. So hopefully this helps others (and even myself) with future learning.

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Boyink.com Beginner
http://www.boyink.com/splaat/weblog/category/building-an-expressionengine-site/
Step-by-Step tutorial series on how to get a basic ExpressionEngine website from the ground up.

ExpressionEngine Knowledge Base ALL
http://expressionengine.com/knowledge_base/

ExpressionEngine Wiki ALL
http://expressionengine.com/wiki/

ExpressionEngine Documentation ALL
http://expressionengine.com/docs/

Shapeshed.com Advanced
http://shapeshed.com/search/results/97c2090a2cfe7d1cee49fb5dd662d49b/
3 part series on optimizing ExpressionEngine and server (MT) for better performance.

Train-EE.com Beginner to Advanced
http://www.train-ee.com/
Website with screencasts and tutorials on various ExpressionEngine topics. Administered by Michael Boyink of Boyink.com

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If you find anymore, please feel free to post them here so we can have a list for everyone to reference. =)

• Bk Design Tutorial Articles
• Veerle’s Blog EE posts
• Jamboree via the Archives for 7.03.2007 takes some digging but if you know the articles that were available you can find most all of them.
• Leo And Meg tutorials from 2004
• EE Image Gallery template design  - Simon Collison’s Blog
• Revised Photo Sets using EE Gallery - more Colly…
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The User Guide and these forums.

Ask any of the longtime support people—I’ve been a burden from the start.  😉

@Grad student

You don’t have to know any PHP or SQL at all, unless you’re doing some serious modifications, so don’t worry about that.

EE needs you to know two things, xHTML and CSS for your design, layout and styling, and the tag/templating system so you can control how your content is displayed. Assuming you have a decent know how of xHTML/CSS the best thing you can do is set up a test site using the Core version and play, test, and experiment with tags and templates.