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In this video we will start with a blank slate and create a usable but simple layout to replace that which is found at Sean Smith’s Repatriate.me. This was not meant to be a end all be all tutorial but rather just a quick post about some of the features that I like about Fireworks as it applies to web design. You may like Photoshop… that is ok. The video idea came about because Sean and Richard were both asking questions about designing websites and I made the comment that they needed to give Fireworks a whirl. As a way of convincing them to come to the dark side I have armed this video with the very best. It basically recreates the look of Sean’s website in about 10 minutes.

You can download the completed file here *note: I hated the colors after recording the video so I changed them up a bit and feel free to use the file for whatever.

Click through to see the video…

I often see questions on the ExpressionEngine Forums regarding photo galleries. In EE Version 2.0 the Photo Gallery module by EllisLab is going to be discontinued but there are some other reasons for using Weblogs instead of the Photo Gallery Module.

So…

Doing a search for JQuery Image Slideshow on Google nets quite a few solutions for the designer wanting to integrate a rotating image effect on their website. We are kinda partial to Mike Alsup’s Cycle JQuery plugin. If you use his code try and make a donation.

What is a company info weblog and why should I use one? Well, we have tried to make it easy to change the information store on an EE website. We wanted a central location for all contact information. Frankly I just got tired of changing company names and email addresses on 6 different locations on some of the sites we manage for our custom clients. So what we did was create a Company Info Weblog which allows us to input the contact information once and pull it into the website in the various locations. See below for more information.

**Note: We are now utilizing the path.php Global Variables for Version 1.6.8

*** Another Note: In our version 2.0 templates we will be using the Global Variables found in the Template Manager

I am making a couple of assumptions with this tutorial. First there are so many different hosts and they each have their own way of creating databases so we are assumming that you already have a database created and that you know the location, database name, database username, and the database password. From there let’s get started on installing EE!

Godaddy shared hosting is probably one of the more prevalent hosting packages that we get asked about. Judge all you want but they have a stable product for very little money that works well for small business owners that have sites with little traffic. Recently someone asked me how to install EE in Godaddy Shared Hosting so I decided to make a tutorial out of it.

I have wanted to know how to do this for about 6 months now so I finally sat down and figured it out. I also have some handy tips that will help you format the look and feel of SSP. So click on the link to read how you can Integrate SlideShowPro into ExpressionEngine.

Before we get started make sure to head on over to the SlideShowPro website and purchase the Flash Package for use with this tutorial.