Prefer print?  Or not so big on PayPal? 

The Building an ExpressionEngine Series - Small Business book is now available in print form via Lulu.com:
http://stores.lulu.com/train-ee

Make sure to purchase both the CD and book so you get the text versions of all the companion files mentioned in the book.

The CD also includes the EE Control Panel Overview screencast (viewable with a web browser setup with javascript and Flash).

Yes - you’ve read the the weblog series, now own the book!

By popular demand, I’ve culled the “Building an ExpressionEngine Site” weblog posts out, and have compiled them into a downloadable eBook for your reading pleasure.

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I’m excited to finally be able to pull the sheet of Train-ee.com - a site where I intend to deliver eBooks, screencasts and other resources all designed with one thing in mind - to get the working web professional up to speed on ExpressionEngine as quickly as possible.

Why this, why now?

Simple - over the past 12-18 months I’ve seen a large increase in the number of contacts for ExpressionEngine work - not from end users, but from other developers and design firms.  The story is usually roughly the same - they have a project, EE looks like it’d be a great fit, but they don’t yet have the internal expertise to do the ExpressionEngine implementation.

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Call it a New Years Resolution, call it a last-ditch-2007-effort, but at any rate, at the end of this chapter you can call this tutorial series “done”.  In the last chapter we worked through the weblog implementation, and it was a pretty heavy chapter with the most advanced code in this entire tutorial.  This chapter won’t be like that…

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I’m pleased to announce the relaunch of Espec.com.

Espec is the “world’s largest manufacturer of environmental test chambers, offering the widest selection and highest quality equipment” and is located here in West Michigan.

From a business perspective, the project goals were to clarify the product category structure, offer more product detail and specifications, more product photos, all in a more attractive and up to date design.

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