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ExpressionEngine
A full featured CMS (content management system), from EllisLab. EE is a web design's/web developer's dream come true. Dollar for dollar one of the best web development weapons ever invented. Not for the faint of heart, EE entails more than a minimal level of programming prowess. Fun fact: The proper spelling of ExpressionEngine as well as EllisLab is without a space. But you already knew that, right?
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9 August
2012
jQuery plugin: ezColumnControl v0.5.0 (beta)
FYI => Presenting my latest jQuery plugin…ezColumnControl – beta release (v0.5.0).
Friday
15 June
2012
WordPress 3.4 – What’s new
Consumed => “What’s New in WordPress 3.4″ by Daniel Pataki on Smashing Magazine.
Monday
4 June
2012
A dirty little secret about form updates via Ajax
FYI => I’ve been working up a jquery plugin for ExpressionEngine’s SafeCracker that would make certain updates via Ajax easier.
Friday
25 May
2012
Launched: Shanachie Entertainment’s new website
FYI => I’m a bit late on announcing this proper but… Launched: Shanachie Entertainment’s new website. http://www.alchemyunited.com/2012/05/16/launch-shanachie-com Falco Design’s client. FD did the PM, design and majority of the markup. I was contracted for the ExpressionEngine development slice. Also, along the way my jquery plugin ezPagination was envisioned, coded and added to the mix. Please [...]
Tuesday
15 May
2012
EE, SafeCracker, Ajax and updating multiple channels / entries
FYI => The UX called for a clean Ajax based updated within an ExpressionEngine SafeCracker form. What wasn’t so standard was having to update two (or more) EE channels / entries via a single form submit. And this is where the magic started to happen.
Monday
16 April
2012
Discovering ExpressionEngine’s preload_replace
FYI => A couple weeks ago I started the development phase of another project in (the CMS) ExpressionEngine. In the process of vetting a couple project specific ideas I came across preload_replace. In that moment my EE world changed.
Friday
13 April
2012
Spring is here! And so is GregsLandscaping.com
FYI => Launched! Honest, clean & thorough, just like the GL brand itself, this ExpressionEngine driven website showcases Gregs Landscaping’s’ full range of services.
Thursday
12 April
2012
ExpressionEngine has its limit (of 100)
FYI => Over the last week or so I’ve been fitting in some nips and tucks to the Robin’s Nest website. Long story short, after plenty of foul language, I discovered that ExpressionEngine has a default limit=” ” of 100. Who knew?
Tuesday
10 April
2012
Look ma! I did the EE dev for…
FYI => Look ma! I did some of that—the CMS web dev / ExpressionEngine part. I’m going to do a formal “launched” post in soon. But until then I figured I should mention that Shanachie Entertainment’s press release made it Yahoo News. http://news.yahoo.com/celebrated-independent-record-label-shanachie-entertainment-relaunches-newly-110223373.html http://Shanachie.com My slice was the ExpressionEngine development and a bit of jquery. [...]
Thursday
23 February
2012
Static is what static does
Consumed => “Good Old Static HTML Sites Aren’t Dead Yet. Should They Be?” by Ada Ivanova on SpeckyBoy.
Sunday
4 September
2011
Transformation of 21plus nearly complete
FYI => The enhancements to 21plus.org are nearly complete. Sometimes I forget just how robust and flexible ExpressionEngine really is. I actually just learned another new trick. Fancy that!
Wednesday
10 August
2011
Getting WP sticky to work with categories and tags
Consumed => “Definitive Sticky Posts Guide for WordPress” by Nathan Rice on this blog.
Thursday
28 July
2011
Coming soon…21 Plus 2.0
FYI => The call yesterday with 21 Plus and Falco Design went extremely well. After some follow-up discussion I scoped out their needs, proposed a couple solutions—because that is what I do—and almost immediately the reply was, “Let’s do it”.
Friday
27 May
2011
The impact of dynamic content on Google and SEO
Consumed => “How does Google handle pages with content that changes on each page load?” by Google Webmaster Help on YouTube.
Friday
13 May
2011
Time to dust off the ExpressionEngine skills
FYI => Just finished up a (goto) meeting with 21 Plus and Falco Design. Time to dust off the ExpressionEngine skills. It looks like there might be a healthy list of enhancements coming from 21 Plus.
Monday
14 March
2011
Happy B-day Robin’s Nest Rhythm & Blues
FYI => Alchemy United client RNRB turned one year old over the weekend.
Monday
24 January
2011
Custom post types in WordPress
Bookmarked => “How to Create a FAQ Page with WordPress and Custom Post Types” by Sumeet Chawla on Net Tuts.
Tuesday
14 December
2010
Learning from another’s EE mistakes
Consumed => “expressionengine-addons.com is now ee-garage.com” by Leevi Graham on Newism.
Friday
19 November
2010
Beta launch: RecoveryRevolution.org
New website now in play for Recovery Revolution built on the CMS ExpressionEngine 2.x.
Wednesday
10 November
2010
ExpressionEngine and Freeform issue fixed
Without getting into details, Freeform (from Solspace) was working just fine. And then it wasn’t.
