Migrating Matrix & Ngen file fields to EE2 Matrix and native file field

Long time no blog. I’m back and planning on writing more frequently here.

I recently upgraded my personal family site with MSM from ExpressionEngine 1.6.9 to 2.1.3 and as most EE devs know this is a major upgrade with a lot of potential for incompatibilities due to the complete restructuring that went into the 2.x branch of ExpressionEngine. To ... Read More

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 ... 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 ... Read More

Breadcrumbs in ExpressionEngine

I’m working on a site and setting up breadcrumbs with ExpressionEngine. Since I’m not using the structure module which as I understand it has a plugin tag I had to figure out a way to do this myself. With a little google help I found a plugin called Crumbee which got me a large part of the way there.

The problem was that I ended up with a lot of ... Read More

The Ultimate Twitter ExpressionEngine List

A week or so ago twitter made lists available to all users and they seem to be gaining in popularity. I made a few lists right away with the largest of them having about 160 people. That was my ExpressionEngine list. However I wanted to find everyone on twitter who tweets about EE so that I could have the Ultimate LIst of ExpressionEngine tweeple. ... Read More

E-texteditor vs Notepad++

I’ve been using notepad++ as my text-editor of choice for several years now and have been relatively satisfied with it. It does everything I want, but I’ve also heard a lot of good things about e-texteditor which has “the power of textmate on windows”. I’m not a fan of Apple products but have heard so many good things about textmate that I thought ... Read More

Developing EE Sites on Windows

I wrote an article for EE_Insider titled Developing EE Sites on Windows. In the article I discuss the programs I use in my development process including Xampp, Notepad++, WebDrive, IE Tester, IE web developer toolbar, IE debug bar, and Firebug. If you like the article leave a comment.

ExpressionEngine Tips

Ryan over at EEinsider has started a new feature where users can submit various EEinsider tips to share with the community.

Ryan has launched this new section on his site with a contest:

Over the next two weeks, I’m going to award a free EE Code T-shirt to five different people who contribute tips. In order to qualify you have to add at ... Read More

Why ExpressionEngine Should Be Your Next CMS

Why ExpressionEngine Should Be Your Next CMS is an informative post by Ryan Irelan about why Expression Engine is the right CMS - well worth reading.

Will also add Ryan’s blog to the sidebar.