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Thursday, December 10, 2009

My Start As An ExpressionEngine Consultant

My start as an ExpressionEngine consultant was initially out of frustration. About five years ago I worked on my first ExpressionEngine website. The site was a personal project I created to consolidate all the "cool" jobs in New Mexico into one central location. It was my contribution to the growth of New Mexico's creative class.

At the time I was using Moveable Type for the project and was getting frustrated because I had to manually remove old jobs every month and then had to republish the whole website. After a quick online search, I found ExpressionEngine which had the ability to expire entries. That's all I needed to make the switch really. Since that day, just about every project coming out of the MediaGirl's office has been built on the ExpressionEngine CMS.

The flexibility of ExpressionEngine has allowed us to create some great projects over the past five years... hopefully with more to come over the next five years!

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Ready Add-ons

A list of add-ons that have been ported to EE 2.0. The list is compiled by the fine folks at Devote-EE.
http://www.devot-ee.com/add-ons/ee2/

Unfortunately, the list is short and doesn't include any of my "must have" ExpressionEngine add-ons.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Friday, November 13, 2009

ExpressionEngine 2.0

Straight from the ExpressionEngine's blog:

ExpressionEngine 2.0 will be released on December 1st, 2009. The Commercial license will retail for $299.95, the Non-commercial license for $149.95, and there is a new license type called Freelancer. We’ll have more info on Freelancer in November but the basic idea is that its an easy way for a freelancer (or small team) to deploy EE 2.0 on their own website for $99.95 (please note that the Freelancer is not the Commercial license, just cheaper). If you purchased EE 1.6.3 or later, the upgrade price to 2.0 is only $50 (the retail price difference). That’s a year and half (plus) of grace period on upgrades.

Read the complete post here.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Friday, November 13, 2009

Friday Distraction

jQuery SWFObject from Ian Eure.

Filed Under: For Laughs

Friday, September 11, 2009

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Close to Beta2

ExpressionEngine fans have been waiting a long time for ExpressionEngine 2.0 to be released. With promises of a more sophisticated user interface and enhanced features, we are all a little giddy!

The official recent news from EllisLab is that Beta1 testing (which MediaGirl participated in) is nearing a close and Beta2 testing is about to start...

You can read the complete details here.

Filed Under: Expression Engine