Nine Years Ago Today

Nine Years ago I joined the ExpressionEngine community. I got in on a free license giveaway for the first 1000 people to send an email to EllisLab. At that time I was a web enthuasiast and full time Universty Instructor.

In the last nine years I have switched careers to full time web developer, attended an EE conference in New York and for a 5 month period was part of the technical support team at EllisLab.  I've built dozens of ExpressionEngine sites from 10 site MSM installs to small mom & pop businesses. It's really great to[…]

Standard Add-ons For ExpressionEngine Development

I've been thinking about writing a blog post on this topic for a while now, but Marcus Neto just posted his list which prompted me to finally do this. Many of the addons on my list are the same but there are a few differences.

CE Image $22 - On the fly image manipulation with nice features including being able to set where to crop from, set background colors/transparencies and more. Plus it's from Causing Effect the[…]

ExpressionEngine Conference 2013

Last week I bought my tickets to the October 2013 ExpressionEngine conference in Portland Oregon. This will be the first year under the new ownership of Turner Parscale and it looks like they've done a great job of expanding the scope of the conference.

There are now more speakers including simultaneous sessions, workshops, lunch, conference reception and recordings of all workshops so you can attend one and then watch the one you missed at the same time. The last two options are[…]

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[…]