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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Author’s Note: My apologies - I accidentally deleted this entry while working on chapter 17.  I was able to retrieve the article text from my rss feed, but lost all the original comments.

Yes, finally, I’m back with another chapter in the Building an ExpressionEngine Site series.  It’s been a couple of weeks since our last installment - but with the holidays plus negotiating for my new job with EllisLab and other projects going on, this one took awhile.  Also - and this is a good heads up for those of you new to implementing sites on EE, weblogs will always take longer than other sections of the site.  Why?  Simply because they require more work - more templates and more formatting. 

However, as always with EE, there are a number of ways to implement a weblog with EE.  Let me explain at a high level the approach I’m taking here and you can decide if it meets your needs or not. 

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Well, the word is out.  The jig is up.  The cat is out of the bag.  I can talk about what I’ve been keeping under my hat.  I....uh...well I’m out of cliche’s. 

Here’s the deal - after a couple of weeks of emails and phone calls and decision making I’m excited to announce that I’ve finally succumbed to my apparent destiny and have accepted a part-time job with EllisLab, the folks behind ExpressionEngine and CodeIgniter.

You can read the official announcement on the ExpressionEngine blog.

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