The class will primarily center around planning, building, testing and delivering add-ons. We’ll cover the ins and outs of the new CodeIgniter foundation of EE along with each type of add-on and how to build them.

So - interested?  Cool.  Come to San Antonio, TX in March and find out why EllisLab endorses Train-ee as an official Training Partner.  Find out why companies like Garmin, organizations like the Federal Reserve, and schools like the University of Georgia have trusted Train-ee to teach their staff how to use ExpressionEngine.  Find out how much fun classroom training can be with an informal yet informative learning environment during the day followed by evenings out on the town or viewing the local attractions.

Location: San Antonio, Texas USA

This class runs from Monday, March 26th, 2012, through Thursday, March 29th, 2012

Everything is bigger in Texas, and Train-ee is no exception! Enjoy 3 days of southern hospitality, great scenery and tasty food while learning about EE elbow to elbow with other like-minded folks.

Days will be spent in an informal yet informative learning environment, and evenings we’ll get out on the town and see the sights!

Location: San Antonio, Texas USA

This class runs from Wednesday, March 21st, 2012, through Friday, March 23rd, 2012

So, you’ve heard about ExpressionEngine 2 - the rockin’ web publishing platform from EllisLab? Or, maybe you’ve already purchased it, and now need a resource to help ease the learning curve?

Meet Building an ExpressionEngine 2 Site for Small Business - a 362-page, 148 screen-capture bundle of development joy lovingly written with the sole purpose of getting you up to speed on ExpressionEngine 2 as quickly as possible.

How good is this book?  EllisLab (you know, the company who created EE) use it to teach new hires about ExpressionEngine.

By reading this book you will learn how to do the following with ExpressionEngine 2:

• Build a full-featured, database-driven, easy-to-manage, secure Small Business website.
• Power any visual design for the ultimate in creative freedom.
• Store content in Channels for ease of entry and maintenance.
• Implement different types of content including Home, About, Products, Services, and Weblog sections.
• Add functionality including a Contact Form, Search, and 404 page.
• Use Embedded Templates, Snippets, and Variables for easier site implementation and code maintenance.
• Organize Template Groups and Templates for semantic URLs.
• Upload and manage images and other files.
• Use Categories for better content organization and showing related content.
• Tune the site for best performance.
• Configure and optimize the Control Panel for client access.
• Extend ExpressionEngine with third-party add-ons, including Matrix from Pixel & Tonic.

Prerequisites
This book assumes you are a web professional with a solid understanding of XHTML and CSS. 

The Book Includes

• A foreword by Leslie Camacho, President of EllisLab.
• A bookmarked Table of Contents for ease of navigation.
• Contextual links to the ExpressionEngine User Guide for more details on functionality covered.
• Chapter-based troubleshooting tips to keep you speeding along in your development.
• Code samples linked to text-based versions on Train-ee.com for ease of copy & paste into EE.
• A link to a .zip download of all code templates for ease in working offline.
• A link to a zip archive containing all photos used in sample content - to save you the hassle.

Note
This book is the revised for EE 2, reorganized, expanded, compiled and dressed up version of the Small Business tutorial series available here on Train-ee. More detail about what’s changed can be found in the news post announcing the book.

PDF Version
You are buying a .PDF version of the book.

Buy on Amazon!
A print version is now available via Amazon.com.

Train-ee.com PDF Purchase Process
Once your payment clears PayPal, Train-ee.com will send you an email containing the download link.  The sending email address will be eeforme@train-ee.com - make sure any spam filters you have in place are configured to allow the email to come through.

This 49 minute screencast can’t help you earn stripes from a manager running your workteam like an Army platoon nor can it help you deal with that coworker who keeps stealing your lunch from the shared fridge. 

What this screencast can do is give you a complete education around ExpressionEngine relationships - from defining what they are, to looking at specific types, to comparing relationships to categories, to working with EE’s native relationship capabilities, and then working with two of the leading 3rd party relationship extensions (Playa from Brandon Kelly and Related Entries from Solspace). 

All examples are presented within the context of a portfolio site with clients and projects that need to be tied together.

How do you set them up with access and make sure they only see what they need to see - both so they are impressed with your work, and so that they don’t mess anything up by selecting options that you didn’t factor for on the site?

This 38 minute screencast is designed to help you best configure your site before giving your clients access to it.

This hour-long screencast covers the basics of offering members-only content on an EE site, and builds on the member extranet idea by showing you how to allow members to submit content via a limited view of the EE Control Panel.

Then it wraps up by showing how to implement workflow for those member submissions so member-submitted posts need to be approved before appearing live on the site.

Seriously…there’s weblogs and categories and global variables and the pages module and fresh variables and global variables and….aaugh!

What you are struggling with is how to design an ExpressionEngine Architecture, or EEA.  That moment of frustration is what this hour-long screencast was designed to get you through.

Note - this screencast was produced with ExpressionEngine 1x.  While EE 2 has a redesigned Control Panel interface and “weblogs” are now “channels”, the fundamental concepts and approaches shown in this screencast still apply.

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.