Ramblings on ExpressionEngine and the Web

Foundation & Structure Navigation

I'm building my first site using Structure as an agency that I've partnered with uses Structure on every site they build. The site that I'm building out is also responsive and I'm using Foundation 3 as the responsive framework.

The issue that I've run into is that Foundation expects your navigation to follow a specific structure to work responsively with drop down menus, but that the Structure tag {exp:structure:nav} has some limitations in the customization of what you can do with adding[…]

SEO and ExpressionEngine

I've used a number of different methods in the past to get SEO meta tags in ExpressionEngine easily editable for clients. Recently however I feel that I've found what I feel is the best way for me and is also very flexible going forward. This method does require using 4 addons, three of which I use on almost every build and only one of which is commercial.

SEO Lite Low Variables ($47) Switchee

Migrating EE1 to Statamic

I have just migrated Repatriate Me! from ExpressionEngine 1.6.8 to a new CMS called Statamic. The reason this was migrated to Statamic is that it was built on an older free version of ExpressionEngine which no longer exists. All available versions are commercial and it was not worth upgrading the software and paying licensing costs. The site did need to be upgraded due to it's age and the site need a completely new look so Statamic was chosen as it's perfect for small sites and blogs.

Additionally the licensing cost[…]

<head> Tags in EE sites

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[…]