Expression Engine

Thursday, June 30, 2011

ExpressionEngine & Newspapers

If you're searching for the perfect CMS for a newspaper or magazine project, look no further... ExpressionEngine rocks large content sites and scales well as data and traffic grows. Below are four of my projects that are good examples of what EE can do:

- Zocalo is the largest traffic and content site I've worked on. It's for a daily Mexican newspaper.

- Gulf Coast Business Review is a weekly business newspaper.

- zRecs Network is a group of online blogs focused on kid related content.

- Inkling Magazine is an online magazine on science and women.

Filed Under: Expression Engine

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Devote:ee

The Devote:ee website is my favorite ExpressionEngine hangout. The site centralizes ExpressionEngine modules/plugins/extensions/accessories in one location and gives developers and easy way to buy addons. Not all addons are represented on the site but it is by far the most comprehensive list anywhere on the web.

Filed Under: Bookmarks, Coding, Expression Engine, Tools

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Where Are The Women?

When I look at conference lines-up, I tend to checkout how many women are on the speaker list. Imagine my disappointment to see that out of 25 speakers for next week's EECI conference, only two are women... Lea Alcantara and Leslie Flinger.

Come on EllisLabs, there are a ton of amazing women designers and developers who have rallied around ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter... surely you could have balanced that speaker list a little better.

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Sunday, May 16, 2010

ExpressionEngine Coder

For many years now I've worked exclusively as an ExpressionEngine coder and I'm pretty happy with that decision when I reflect on it. When I started I had the fortunate luck of being the go-to coder for an ad agency in Albuquerque that was just getting started themselves. Thus started my career as a coder for hire to agencies and designers.

My tool of choice at the time and now is ExpressionEngine for a myriad of reasons... the first being that I know any design I'm sent will work just fine within EE's templates. There might be a few tweaks needed, but nothing that will have me telling a client I can't build their project. Top that with the explosion of great EE addons and modules that have been coming out over the last couple of years and I know I can build just about any project that comes across my desk.

That isn't to say I don't tell people EE isn't right for their project... I actually say it a couple of times a month and as EE is becoming more popular, I seem to be saying it more often. Folks come to me saying "I want to use EE, oh and here are my project specs". They've selected EE as the software without fully understanding the software's limits. I personally don't get involved in projects that aren't right for EE. I don't want to be that coder who says "sorry, it actually can't be done" a month after the project started or "sorry, I need more money" to have someone recode EE to do what you want. I ask a ton of questions and know for sure I can build the project before I will quote it.

In the end, ExpressionEngine has proven to be a solid tool for me and I would like to tip my hat to all my fellow coders and to the folks at Ellis Labs who make it all possible. Cheers!

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

MediaGirl Spotlight

A few weeks ago devot:ee started to run a "Spotlight" series of articles where members of the ExpressionEngine development community talk about their work. Take a few minutes to visit this great website to read a spotlight article featuring one of our ExpressionEngine projects!

Filed Under: Expression Engine