EllisLab recently redesigned their web site. However during the redesign the legacy docs for ExpressionEngine one were removed. They are still available as a download (top right). However if you don't know exactly where to find what you need there is no search in the download as it relies on google to search. Tom Davies is now hosting the docs at http://ee1docs.com/ which will be a great resource for[…]
Today @TonyChester linked to an article titled Should We Kill the Captcha? Of course we should. Captchas are a nuisance, generally difficult to decipher and there are other ways to avoid spam comments on your blog. This is especially true with ExpressionEngine.
The article linked above provides several screenshots of bad captchas that are impossible to make it. I too whent to a site that I know using recaptcha and immediately came across this:
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There are many approaches to setting up the head and doctype of a template in ExpressionEngine. Up until EECI 2011 I had been using embeds for the head of my document and passing through any additional javascript or css files as variable. For example from an older site I had this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> {embed="includes/meta" my_title="Photo Gallery" my_css="<link href='/interface/css[…]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[…]