Today I am writing my first Expression Engine Template. So far I can tell it’s not that bad once you get used to it. It is semi-frustrating to feel like people make things more complicated than they need to by using template systems. But I am really in no position to evaluate it’s effectiveness yet.
So launch is um, we don’t know when. The goal is though to have the entire site re-written in a WCM ((Web Content Manager)) of some or other type. Hence the Expression Engine template.
In other things Elliot helped me configure postfix for the first time. That was pretty easy. I’ve also done a few mysqldump’s and imports. It feels really good to be able to dump a site and then import it on another server and actually have it appear magically. I feel like I’ve been missing out by being too lazy to learn.
Elliot also showed my this amazing commenting setup. I really like the way it looks on the Django Book site. ((I linked to a page where you could see it.)) So that makes me really wish I was smarter. That JS stuff seems pretty light weight. I could be wrong. That is really slick stuff regardless. I’m so impressed it loads about 50 million times faster than a lightbox and is way more useful. I wonder if there is a way to cache every light box image on a page in the background so that it loads faster. That makes me wish I was smarter also. I might be able to figure it out.
Back to the template…
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