Over a series of 8 videos, watch and learn as Ryan builds an entire ExpressionEngine website from beginning to end. Get started now.
The fine folks at Erskine Design will be leading a half-day session at the Future of Web Design conference in London next Spring. Learn more about it over at the Erskine Design blog.
Posted on Dec 08, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Earlier this Fall, Nathan Pitman began documenting his experience and steps of migrating his personal site from TextPattern to ExpressionEngine. I’m not sure if he’s finished the series yet, but the first five steps he posted should be helpful to anyone in the same situation.
Posted on Dec 05, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Earlier this week, Eric posted to the PragProg EE Screencast forum asking about how I get the EE tags to be color coded in TextMate in the ExpressionEngine training videos. I realized that I never explicitly mentioned this and want to now for those who use Macs and TextMate. It might make it even easier to follow along with the screencasts if our code matches colors.
Posted on Dec 04, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
I know I’m not the only one who develops ExpressionEngine sites on the local computer first, but I’m also certain there are many people who do not and would like to learn more. If you’re one of those people, this ExpressionEngine tutorial is for you.
Posted on Nov 29, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Train-ee is doing another classroom-style EE training and once again you have a chance to go for free with the ExpressionEngine Scholarships. Thanks to the assistance of the community (PragProg and EE Screencasts sponsored the last event and this time my employer Airbag Industries is chipping in for an entire scholarship), the folks at Ellis Lab will award three scholarships to the 4-day training.
Follow the link above for all of the details and rules.
Posted on Nov 29, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
So, you’re ready to jump into the world of ExpressionEngine? You’ve got your tutorials in front you and are ready to start building your first EE-powered website. All you need to do is install ExpressionEngine on your local computer of web server and then it’s off to the races! This guide to installing EE will help you kick start the EE learning process.
Posted on Nov 29, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
With a tired economy and a long weekend in the U.S., it’s the perfect time to learn some new skills and expand your knowledge of building stuff for the web.
The publisher I work with for the EE Screencasts is offering a special Black Friday discount on almost everything in their inventory, including the screencasts!
Use the discount code TURKEY to get 25% off your order. If you buy the entire EE Screencasts series that means you save more than $15 USD. A deal you shouldn’t pass up!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted on Nov 26, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Sometimes you just a single page, like an About page, and it should be easy and fast to create. In this screencast we learn how to install and configure the Pages module so we can easily create static pages for our website.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
In this screencast, we’ll learn how to organize our content into categories and display those categories in the template as navigation.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Learn how to create an RSS feed in ExpressionEngine, so readers can subscribe to your content. Additionally, we’ll learn how to remove the index.php from the URL, so our URLs are prettier and simpler.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
This video will teach you more aspects of templating in EE, most specifically how to add comments and a comment form. I walk you through this, step-by-step as you watch in real-time while I continue developing the website.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
The tried and true way to “light up” your EE site.
Throughout this video tutorial I guide you step-by-step on how to build effective and easy-to-manage EE templates.
My preferred method of working is to always begin with fully coded static templates. I simply drop them into EE and then slowly “light up” the template using EE code. You see this happen already in the first episode of the EE how-to series, as well as in almost every episode. After creating more than two dozen ExpressionEngine websites, I’ve found this to be the most reliable and efficient development method.
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Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Learn how to get ExpressionEngine ready to hand off to clients. We’ll tweak and customize EE so the client can easily manage the website. We’ll learn how to make it easy to edit content from the front of the website, install add-ons that allow us to tweak the control panel, create a publishing workflow, add client documentation and more.
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Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
Learn how to improve the performance of your ExpressionEngine website with the built-in caching functionality. We’ll learn four different caching method, Query Disabling and see the benefits of it all with faster page loads.
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Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
In this screencast we will learn how to implement both simple and advanced search forms, create a search results page and more. This screencast shows you how to implement complete search capability for your EE site.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
In this tutorial we will create relationships between entries using a custom relationship field and the reverse-related entries functionality.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
This screencast shows you how to add membership functionality to your ExpressionEngine website. You’ll learn how to restrict access to content based on membership, restrict templates based on member group, add a custom login form and some advanced use of conditionals.
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Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
We learn how to set up the EE control panel for easy iTunes-compatible podcast publishing. We’ll install an extension, create a podcast RSS feed and more.
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Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
In this screencast learn how to build a SAEF in ExpressionEngine, so you and your site members can add content to the site without using the control panel.
Posted on Nov 03, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
If you’re like me, you often work offline—on an airplane or away from wifi— but still want to have access to the EE User Guide, in case you need to refer to it for that one parameter you can’t remember or that elusive EE tag. The ExpressionEngine User Guide you’re used to using is hosted on the EE website, but did you know there’s a downloadable version, too?
I honestly do not know how long it has been available, but I didn’t notice it until the other day after I tweeted, asking people how they view the documentation while offline. I feel silly for not realizing it earlier (I had been using an outdated PDF someone posted to the EE Wiki) but if you go to the Downloads area of the ExpressionEngine website, lo and behold, they offer a complete version of the EE documentation for your downloading pleasure.
Posted on Sep 06, 2008 by Ryan Irelan
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