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Richard is creative director for Friendly Design based in Manchester, England and has been designing for the web for over ten years. He has used many Content Management Systems in the past but has recently been pointed in the direction of - and has thoroughly enjoyed learning - EllisLab's ExpressionEngine. He's a hard man to win over, but rumour has it Haagen Dazs Strawberry Cheesecake will do the trick. He doesn't like writing about himself!
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Become an ExpressionEngine Superstar in 5 days

Become an ExpressionEngine Superstar in 5 Days: Part 2

Richard Tape on Apr 21st 2009 with 82 comments

Continuing on from part 1 in this series — where we briefly looked at why we would consider paying for a CMS, then went on to install EE and have a look around — we will now delve much deeper into what makes ExpressionEngine such a powerful CMS. Many people are put off by its steeper learning curve; today’s tutorial will try and alleviate some of those worries.

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Become an Expression Engine Superstar in 5 Days

Richard Tape on Apr 13th 2009 with 142 comments

ExpressionEngine claims to be “the most flexible web publishing system you’ll ever meet” – it’s also the most oft-used CMS in the professional web design community that you’ve never given the time of day to. It’s time to change that and find out precisely why all of the ‘free’ alternatives should sit up and take note.

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