Going to Ottawa Next Week

Next week, I’m going to Ottawa and will be in the city from July 5-10 as a scouting trip for my move there next summer. Would love to meet up with any web developers in the area.

Default Install of ExpressionEngine

Last night I set up a default install of ExpressionEngine 1.6.9 to help me with faster web site deployment. Basically now I’ll be able to move directly into development of the client web site rather than installing and customizing EE each time, which takes a lot of time due to downloading and installing various add-ons over and over. Now All I’ll need to do is unzip a folder and import an .sql file to the database and I’ll be good to go.

What I’ve done with my default install is:

• install a number of add-ons that I use on all my ... Read More

Version 3.0 Launched

Today I launch version 3.0 of this site. The first two versions were designed by myself and it showed my lack of design skills. I’m a developer not a designer so this time around I employed the skills of the highly talented Brandon Livengood (@blivengood) to do the graphics. He’s done the graphics on my last two sites Seoul Selection and another that has yet to go live.

The new site not only looks better but has a better url structure as I have now removed index.php instead of merely renaming it. I also spent some time reorganizing the ... Read More

Banner Advertising With ExpressionEngine

I’m currently building a magazine site for a client which will have advertising in the sidebar. To implement this advertising I used the method detailed in the Subvert.ca blog How to build your own banner advertising system with ExpressionEngine and Google Analytics This was really easy to implement. However I wanted to do a little more.

Since campaigns may expire and it’s possible that there may not be a full complement of live ads on the site at one time I decided to add dummy ads to the site that will only appear when there are not enough ... Read More

Firebug & Chrome

Around 6-8 weeks ago I switched my primary browser from FireFox to Google Chrome due to FireFox being extremely sluggish and bloated. It took me a couple days to get used to Chrome but I found extensions for most of the features I wanted to add. There are a couple of extensions that I miss from FireFox including TabMixPlus which just does a bang up job of tab management.

The biggest extension I miss is Firebug. I know that Chrome has built in developer tools, but I can’t seem to get a handle on them, nor can I figure out where to change ... Read More

Merge two EE installs with MSM

I have two ExpressionEngine core sites that I would like to merge into one site using a personal license and the Multi Site Manager module. A few months ago I asked about how to do this on the forums, but it looks like it hasn’t been done before and everything needs to be manually done. I was hoping to find a better way, but so far no luck.

There are a couple of reasons I’m doing this. The primary reason is that EE core is being discontinued in the EE 2.0 branch and I don’t want to be left with outdated software. I know that EE 1.6.8 will be ... Read More