Title : Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6
Authors : Leonard Murphy
ExpressionEngine is a CMS (content management system) based on PHP development language and MySQL database server developed by EllisLab.
This book will teach you how to build a complete website using EE (ExpressionEngine) driving step by step through ExpressionEngine‘s administration interface and terminology. It starts with the instructions on how to properly install and configure EE and then proceed with the build of a very simple website to which additional features are added through the book, introducing the necessary concepts where necessary to achieve the desired result.
Both the basic standard features and advanced ones provided by additional modules are explained.
You will be guided from the basic EE’s basic concepts (weblog and template) up to the advanced features like :
- authentication and member management
- simple ecommerce functionality
- image gallery
- comments support
- public forms to collect user submitted data
- custom fields
- calendar and events
- categories
- backup, upgrade and maintenance
Every step is completed with screenshots of the actions needed to perform and the description are very clear and detailed. Installation on a MS Windows environment is also detailed to make the first approach easier to novice users.
You don’t need to be a developer to use this book, but basic notions of HTML and CSS languages are necessary to create websites with EE. The HTML and CSS code used through the book is available to download.
If you are looking for a complete guide to learn ExpressionEngine, I think this is a very good book because it is written with a clear style, with many examples and screenshots. A book extract in PDF format is available from Packt Publishing (see the link below) if you want to take a look in detail to the book.
