Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2 -- Table of Contents -- Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 2 -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. Introduction to ExpressionEngine -- What is a content management system? -- Introducing ExpressionEngine -- How does ExpressionEngine compare? -- The business case -- The technical case -- Who is this book intended for? -- Who is this book not intended for? -- What can you expect from this book? -- New in this edition -- Further reading and resources -- 2. Getting Installed -- What do you need to get started? -- Assumptions -- Setting up the ExpressionEngine database -- Downloading the ExpressionEngine files -- Uploading the ExpressionEngine files -- Installing ExpressionEngine -- Logging into the control panel -- Creating user-friendly URLs -- Hiding the index.php in ExpressionEngine URLs -- Renaming index.php in ExpressionEngine URLs -- Summary -- 3. The ExpressionEngine Tour -- Agile Records -- Inside the control panel -- Tab Manager -- Notepad -- Quick Links Manager -- Control panel themes -- Creating content -- Templates and URLs -- Creating your first template -- Using tags to display content in your templates -- Challenges -- Summary -- 4. Moving a Website to ExpressionEngine -- Introducing Ed & Eg -- Deciding upon an approach -- Designing and building your channel -- Custom statuses -- Categories -- Custom fields -- Creating a custom field group -- Creating your first custom field -- Creating your second custom field -- Creating a new channel -- Creating the content for our channel -- Creating templates -- Pointing your template to your channel -- Adding more pages -- Publishing a second page.

Creating a second template -- Going live -- Avoiding repetition -- Preload text replacements -- User-defined global variables -- Snippets -- Creating a menu -- Embedded templates -- Creating a 404 Page not found -- Templates as files -- Challenges -- Summary -- 5. Creating a Fully-Equipped Channel -- Designing your channel -- Creating your custom channel fields -- Creating your categories -- Creating your new channel -- Publishing your first set of questions -- Creating your FAQ templates -- Creating your single-entry page -- Allowing comments on your entries -- Preventing comment spam -- Creating a comment form -- Allowing visitors to preview comments -- Organizing your data with categories -- Displaying categories with your entries -- Distinguishing your category browsing page -- Displaying related entries by category -- The FAQ snippet -- Setting up an RSS or Atom feed -- Improving your 404 Page -- Challenges -- Summary -- 6. Members -- Designing your membership -- Membership preferences -- Registering as a new member -- The member profile -- The member list -- Linking to the member templates -- Introduction to member groups -- Creating a member group -- Creating a member -- Logging in as Editor Ed -- Modifying the Publish page layout -- Creating member-only content -- Making content visible to members only -- Challenges -- Summary -- 7. Creating a Calendar -- Designing the calendar -- Setting up your channels -- Creating custom fields for event sponsors -- Creating the event sponsors channel -- Creating the events custom fields -- Creating the events channel -- Creating example events -- Creating the calendar -- Creating a blank calendar template -- Creating the calendar -- Formatting the calendar with CSS -- Creating the calendar CSS template -- Adding styles to your calendar CSS -- Setting up FancyBox -- Creating your single-entry template.

Displaying events on your calendar -- Challenges -- Summary -- 8. Creating a Photo Gallery -- Designing your photo gallery -- File manager -- Creating your photo gallery channel -- Creating your custom fields -- Creating your categories -- Creating your channel -- Uploading your first photos -- Creating your templates -- Creating the single-entry page -- Creating the multiple-entry page -- Adding content to your multiple-entry page -- Image editing features -- Photo gallery add-ons -- Image sizer -- Channel Images -- Challenges -- Summary -- 9. Beyond the Basics -- The Search module -- Adding a search box to your site -- Creating a search results template -- The no-results template -- Advanced search -- The Mailing List module -- Setting up the Mailing List -- Allowing members to sign-up -- Sending e-mails -- The Email module -- Creating a contact form -- Creating a tell-a-friend form -- Creating the tell-a-friend template -- The Moblog module -- Setting up the Moblog module -- Setting up your template -- Sending a Moblog e-mail -- The Wiki module -- Setting up the wiki -- How does the wiki work? -- Other ExpressionEngine modules -- Multiple Site Manager -- Summary -- 10. Extending ExpressionEngine -- Backups and restores -- Backups -- Database restores -- Upgrading ExpressionEngine -- ExpressionEngine add-ons -- Types of add-ons -- Modules -- Accessories -- Extensions -- Field types -- Plugins -- Third-party add-ons and add-on developers -- Pixel & Tonic -- Solspace -- Newism (Leevi Graham) -- Low (Lodewijk Schutte) -- nGen works -- Other notable add-ons -- Optimizing ExpressionEngine -- Spam -- Performance -- Summary -- A. Installing WampServer -- Installing WAMPServer -- Using WampServer -- Allowing .htaccess files to be used -- Summary -- B. Solutions to Exercises -- Index.