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What is ExpressionEngine and why do we use it?
Wednesday, November 30th 2011## What is ExpressionEngine? > Content Management System: software or a group or suite of applications and tools that enable an organization to seamlessly create, edit, review and publish electronic text. Using very generic phrasing, ExpressionEngine is a commercial content management system allowing its users to create, update and publish...
read moreRunning up the ExpressionEngine Learning Curve
Thursday, December 15th 2011## UI The UI of ExpressionEngine is, how do you say, unflattering. Many EE newcomers are often coming from Wordpress, which in our opinion has a great UI, but EE's is a little less refined (and a lot more pink). For us, the EE Admin homepage is not the center...
read moreInfinite Scroll with EE
Thursday, December 29th 2011## Introduction I'm sure most of you are aware of the infinite scroll feature we're writing about. If not, check out: Svpply, Pinterest, or Lookbook.nu. The concept is not too hard to understand. When the page first loads, it loads an initial amount of items, and after the user has...
read moreSetting Up an ExpressionEngine Site on Pagodabox
Thursday, March 15th 2012#Intro We've recently started to investigate cloud hosting platforms, such as PHPFog and Pagodabox, as an alternative to our current Linode hosting. While Linode is a fantastic host, each project requires that we spend an hour or so to provision our host for staging and production environments, and on top...
read moreExpressionEngine Dev Conference
Tuesday, July 24th 2012First, let me say that I am not trying to belittle or downplay the importance of EECI or other more general EE conferences. When I was at EECI last year, all of the presentations and speakers did a wonderful job, and at any general technology event, it helps to have...
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