Designing an ExpressionEngine Architecture
OK - so you’ve got a finished page comp from your designers, and now you’re staring at the EE Control Panel wondering just how do I set this up?
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.
How?
I start with laying out my goals for each client site built in ExpressionEngine, and then talk about my caveats and biases. Together these provide a foundation for the specific recommendations that I make in the areas of:
- Content Storage
- Navigation Design
- Individual Template Structure
- Template Organization
After making these recommendations I’ll take you to three of my client sites, do a quick tour of the public side of the site and then go into the EE Control Panel and see how these sites do (and sometimes don’t) follow the specific recommendations I’ve made.
After viewing this screencast you should have a better idea how to build an ExpressionEngine Architecture that:
- Helps you be efficient as the developer
- Helps the site be easy for your clients to maintain
- Provides a solid foundation for future growth
Prerequisites
If you are brand new to ExpressionEngine, this screencast will probably be a bit much. At the very least I’d recommend:
- Spending an hour or so exploring the EE CP
- The Video Tutorials on ExpressionEngine.com
- Reviewing the ExpressionEngine documentation
Purchase Details
- The link to view the screencast will come via email once you’ve completed the PayPal checkout
- The purchase includes a PDF that contains all slides used in the screencast, plus links to all sites mentioned
- The purchase also includes a downloadable Quicktime (.mov) version of the screencast for offline viewing.
- Purchasing the screencast grants you ongoing, unlimited access to it
- The purchase license is per-company, meaning one company may make one purchase and have multiple employees view the screencast
- Note that this screencast was developed for EE version 1.6x. Most of it should still apply to EE 2.0 but a full content review is still underway.
Price for this Screencast: $24.95
