Archives for the "ExpressionEngine" category
February 28th 2010
A few people have asked me how I went about setting up the ExpressionEngine meetup I’ve been running in London for the last few months. I didn’t quite know what to say at first because I felt like I just stumbled blindly into it. But as time goes on – we’ve just had our 4th meetup – and questions are starting to come up for me, I thought I’d share what I know and maybe gleen some answers from other meetup organisers out there about the areas I’m unsure about.
Gauging interest
This was easy. I asked a handful of people I knew via the ExpressionEngine forums and/or Twitter who are based in London and the South East if they’d be interested. They all said yes so I figured we were good to go.
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January 15th 2010
One thing I found out about at this month’s ExpressionEngine meetup is this Client Guide which has generously been shared by Kyle from Headspace Design. They have produced a very nicely designed documentation file for their clients, which they are sharing in PDF format as well as the original InDesign files so that you can brand it and edit it with your client’s own details.
When I made my first EE site I spent a long time writing up a documentation file. It was written in HTML and linked from the “User Guide” link in the Control panel. This covered lots of the items Headspace included in theirs, like how to upload files and marking up your text. Ultimately though, I felt that a system which required such detailed documentation couldn’t be very user friendly, which is why – over time – I built up a must-have collection of extensions and plugins which simplified some of these tasks.
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December 16th 2009
Most of the time when I’m setting up a CMS in which site editors can add images to their entries I will give them a specific image field to upload into, and that image will be positioned in the page template wherever I have designed it to go. End of story.
But there is one type of content entry when this just doesn’t cut it. News and Blog entries. The site editor might want to put 1, 2 or 3 images into an entry and they’ll want to position them at the relevant part of the story, in between, or alongside specific paragraphs. And I have got to give them that – it isn’t such a big thing to ask, is it?
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