...and he was gone before the white board eraser bounced off the wall where his head just was?

Remember how much time you spent trying to read the “official” documentation - but it only told you what a feature DID but didn’t explain HOW TO USE IT?

Remember stomping your feet and crying out “I wish a magic geek genie would appear beside ma RIGHT NOW and SHOW me step by step how to USE THIS THING!”

(Maybe you didn’t say those exact words but you have to admit a geek genie would be pretty cool.)

If that new tool you need to learn is ExpressionEngine, you have found the Magic Geek Genie you need.

OK, it’s not all that Magical, nor is there really a Genie.  But the geek part?  Covered.

368 pages.

153 screen captures.

Step by step detailed how-to instructions.

All lovingly kept current with the latest version of ExpressionEngine.

Learn not only what different features of ExpressionEngine do, but HOW to implement them and WHY you would choose one approach over others.

How good is this book?  EllisLab (you know, the company that created EE?) uses it to teach THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES!

Yes, that good.

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 (clients will name their first-born after you).
• Power any visual design for the ultimate in creative freedom (your designers will bring you brownies).
• Implement different types of content including Home, About, Products, Services, and Weblog sections (your boss will worry about his job).
• Add functionality including a Contact Form, Search, and 404 page (is that Google on the phone?).
• Use Embedded Templates, Snippets, and Variables for easier site implementation and code maintenance (one word - Bermuda).
• Organize Template Groups and Templates for semantic URLs (aren’t corner offices grand?).
• Upload, dynamically size and manage images and other files (oh, get the leather interior. Just this once).
• Use Categories for better content organization and showing related content (I’ve never felt twin outboards were ostentatious).
• Tune the site for best performance (waiting until 55 to retire is so 2010).
• Configure and optimize the Control Panel for client access (yes, “Emeritus” will fit on the card).
• Extend ExpressionEngine with third-party add-ons, including Matrix from Pixel & Tonic (the President will see you now).

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.

This book has taught HUNDREDS of web developers just like you how to use ExpressionEngine and is considered by many people to be the “missing owner’s manual” to the product. 

How to Buy

• Be Registered and Logged In here on Train-ee.com.
• Click the “Buy Now” button below.
• Complete the PayPal checkout process.
• Once your payment clears PayPal, Train-ee.com will send you an email containing the download link to the PDF File.
• 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.
• Profit!
• (and be sure to charge the cost of the book back to your boss..)

Available in Print from Amazon
If you prefer print buy Building an ExpressionEngine 2 Site - Small Business on Amazon.com.

ENJOY!

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.