ExpressionEngine

MacUser “website in a weekend” feature

Posted in CMSMS, Drupal, ExpressionEngine, Joomla, MovableType, Quick.CMS, WordPress as a CMS, e107 on January 4th, 2009 by chrisgill – Be the first to comment

I knew when I started this blog that I should go back and check out the feature on CMS that appeared in the UK magazine MacUser something like a year ago. Today I finally did it. Turned out to be published 28 September 2007, and had the curious hook of focusing on building a site in a weekend - despite covering several heavyweight CMS products. In fact it covered many of the systems I am considering. Unfortunately the feature does not seem to be available on the MacUser website. read more »

WP vs EE

Posted in ExpressionEngine, WordPress as a CMS on December 28th, 2008 by chrisgill – Be the first to comment

Edited tips from Mindy Wagner’s post at Viget Labs:

  1. Get over the term “weblog.” In EE, a weblog is a container used to store information and organize your data. Don’t be afraid to make lots of weblogs for a single site. You can change your preferences to call it something else (like “section”), but the template tags will still call them weblogs, so you may find it easier to just adjust your thinking. (Note: Rumor has it this term is being dropped in the upgrade to 2.0, so in a few months you won’t have to worry about this!) read more »

EE vs MT

Posted in ExpressionEngine, MovableType on December 27th, 2008 by chrisgill – Be the first to comment

An apparently thorough comparison of EE and MT by an experienced user of both for blogging-type applications concludes with the following (edited by me) support for EE: read more »

EE template sources

Posted in ExpressionEngine on December 27th, 2008 by chrisgill – Be the first to comment

I’ve so far identified the following, which are somewhat underwhelming:

EEtemplates has a couple of free basic templates, posted late 08.

SimplyGold has half a dozen templates created in late 06.

Novacron has some templates dating from early 07.

EEdesign has quite a few templates but they seem to date from 04.

ExpressionEngine vs TextPattern

Posted in ExpressionEngine, TextPattern on December 24th, 2008 by chrisgill – Be the first to comment

Some years back, I spent some time playing with TextPattern and the precursor of ExpressionEngine, pMachine. Since I’m now very interested in EE, I guess it makes sense also to take an interest in TP, and I have come upon a direct comparison between the two. read more »

Attractive features of ExpressionEngine

Posted in ExpressionEngine on December 22nd, 2008 by chrisgill – Be the first to comment

As I have noted elsewhere, WordPress basically handles posts, pages and links. For the rest, you have to look to third-party plugins or separate scripts, which I’m not keen on. Expression Engine, on the other hand, has some built-in features attracting me to the system (despite the $250 price tag): read more »