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Use screencasts to train clients.

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Philip Zaengle

Over a year ago I started using screencasts to train clients on ExpressionEngine. It’s saved me about a bazzilion hours, and made clients less annoying.

There are no real generic EE setups (for me anyway). There are always new addons, better ways of doings things, and (hopefully) new versions of

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Embedding solves a lot of issues

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Kelsey Martens

If you ever have trouble parsing data, or if you’re dealing with variable collisions (usually encountered when using Addons within other module tags), consider using an embed. smile

For example, if I want to place some code from the Favorites module inside the {exp:weblog:entries} loop, certain

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Use variables in CSS that’s generated by EE

Posted on May 29, 2009 by Philip Zaengle

Sometimes it’s great to use ExpressionEngine to manage CSS, sometimes not. But when I do it’s a great help to use variables in the css document. You can use this for everything from setting colors, fonts, or even debugging.

Often times the same color is used over and over again in a stylesheet. To

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