Tuesday
Jun032008
Michael Boyink {19} expression engine
In issue #19 we speak with Michael Boyink of Boyink Interactive, who provides Internet consulting and design to clients of all sizes. | duration 17:46
Michael is known for his online ExpressionEngine training both on his site, and his EE training site, Train-EE.com. This interview covers the basics of building a site with ExpressionEngine, a commercial Content Management System {CMS}. We also discuss site architecture, specifically for ExpressionEngine.
ExpressionEngine is a content management system, designed by EllisLab. It is available in a free "Core Version", and in both "Personal" and "Commercial" versions after paying a one-time fee. The current version is 1.6.3. Version 2.0 has been announced for "some time in the summer of 2008".
ExpressionEngine is intended to be a simple, yet powerful content management system; for instance, it requires no knowledge of PHP, (but allows you to use it, if you want) and has extensive online documentation and a very active community of users and developers, with regular participation of the company's lead programmers and other key personnel.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT...
This interview is the first in our re-design series over at Creative Component. Follow the blog as we go through a very public site design.
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Nice interview. Was nice to here Michael's voice and views on development. I think his guides have been very useful and have bought the book for my department.
Thanks for sharing this.
This guy has been quite helpful to a lot of folks. His comment on the flexibility being the biggest strength and biggest weakness is so true.
Great to see you are back, gone far too long! Still one of the most interesting and professional podcasts out there (when it's out!).
Interesting interview as I have been using EE for a long time now and find it the best CMS for my needs. Good to hear his perspective.
Thanks for the very informative update! I'll be sure to blog about this so all my readers know.
I’ve been always so indecisive to start my own blog as I wasn’t sure that it’ll gain popularity. I am running the blog for three months already and I am pretty happy with the results