ExpressionEngine Articles, Tutorials and Quick Tips

POSTED ON: Monday, August 9, 2010

The State of ExpressionEngine 2

ExpressionEngine 2 has been out since July.  Here’s a quick review of what’s going on.

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The big reason to avoid a proprietary, closed CMS
POSTED ON: Saturday, May 8, 2010

The big reason to avoid a proprietary, closed CMS

Some web development firms built their sites in their own proprietary CMS. Why this is a bad idea.

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POSTED ON: Friday, December 4, 2009

ExpressionEngine 2.0: First Impressions

It’s here! It’s here!  Read first impressions of ExpressionEngine 2.0.

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POSTED ON: Monday, October 26, 2009

ExpressionEngine 2.0 is coming!

It’s coming!  Boo-yah.

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POSTED ON: Monday, August 10, 2009

How to remove index.php from your ExpressionEngine URLs

By default, ExpressionEngine URLs are ugly, always prefixed by index.php.  With a little work, you can vanquish this unneccesary piece of your URLs.

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Creating custom Google maps in ExpressionEngine entries
POSTED ON: Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Creating custom Google maps in ExpressionEngine entries

Google maps are great, but the default maps aren’t always accurate.  Learn how to generate customized and flexible Google maps and links within ExpressionEngine.

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POSTED ON: Sunday, April 5, 2009

Flash detection with swfobject and SSP Director

Flash detection is a very important thing. I wish that all visitors had a current version of the flash player. I also wish that I could eat ice cream 3 meals a day, but that’s just not reality. It’s up to us to make sure that the website our visitors come to directs them to download the right version of the flash player so that they can see the content we intended them to see the way we intended them to see it.

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Faster template editing with ExpanDrive
POSTED ON: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Faster template editing with ExpanDrive

Are you editing your ExpressionEngine templates and laboriously uploading them again and again with FTP? There’s a better way.

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