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Latest Book: Building an ExpressionEngine Site - Small Business

Version Note
This book is for ExpressionEngine version 1.6x.  If you are using ExpressionEngine 2 you’ll want the updated version.

New to ExpressionEngine development?  Get the only book that walks you through implementing a small business website completely on ExpressionEngine.  The sample website features the following architecture:

  • Home
  • About
  • Products
  • Services
  • Weblog
  • Contact

Also covered are using EE embedded templates, embedded variables with embedded templates, global variables, categories, and implementing the EE search engine.

Written for the working web professional, this book works through implementing the sample site in a step-by-step fashion.  It includes screenshots of the EE control panel and sample output, as well as all the code samples you’ll need to do the implementation. 

All templates covered in the book are included in text-based companion files for ease of copy/paste into EE.

This book is the compiled and dressed up version of the tutorial series available here on Train-ee.

Now Free!
With the impending release of EE2 and retirement of EE 1 I’ve decided to make this book a free download.

Download the eBook for EE 1.6x
You can download the .zip file that contains both the PDF version of the book and text files of all the templates covered in the book at the following URL:

http://www.train-ee.com/aabkj/77rl34/BuildingEESite.zip

What About EE 2?
I’m close to completing a complete re-write of this book for ExpressionEngine 2.  The finished product will be greatly expanded, better organized, and cover all the cool new stuff in EE 2. Watch the Train-ee Twitter Feed or subscribe to the mailing list below to be notified of the V2 version of the book.

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