Articles: Miscellaneous

The State of ExpressionEngine 2

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

Posted on: Monday, August 9, 2010
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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.

Posted on: Saturday, May 8, 2010
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ExpressionEngine 2.0: First Impressions

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

Posted on: Friday, December 4, 2009
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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.

Posted on: Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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Multi-Relationships with Playa

Hard-coding sidebars in to your Expression Engine templates is easy, but inflexible.  Using the Playa Multi Relationship extension, a template group and a simple weblog, gives you great flexibility in how you order content for sidebars.

Posted on: Friday, February 13, 2009
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