EETemplates

It’s been awhile since I made a blog post about this project/case study. We are probably launching this weekend so I figured while I had a free moment (sic) I would make a quick blog post about the different design revisions that we went through to get to the final site. Make the jump if you want the skinny.

For the past couple of years I listened in as many people I know from the development community went to SXSW with jealousy. Last year, with all the ExpressionEngine events, I really kicked myself for not going and vowed that this year I would be there no matter what. So…. I am going to SXSW in about 10 days. I am rooming with Adam Wiggall from TurnandFace.com another ExpressionEngine dev. If you are going drop me a comment and let me know. Would love to catch up with others in the community. This year is going to be a blast!

This morning I was in the mood to do a little video. I knew that I needed to do an overview of the features for some of the templates that we have released as they are a bit different than the typical template for ExpressionEngine. So the following is a quick (12-13 minute) overview of Tudobem and what sets it apart. This template is easy to set up and maintain and contains all of the pieces a small or medium sized business would need. Make the jump to view the video.

This is just a quick post to say that Stephen Lewis released a new fieldtype for ExpressionEngine. For those of you that do not know what FieldTypes are they are used in conjunction with Brandon-Kelly’s most useful Extension called FieldFrame. With FieldFrame a user can add additional rows of content based on their needs or they can just have different types of content like check boxes, field matrices or BucketLists. I think Stephen has a real winner here with BucketList. We are using it for as custom client right now in an effort to make their Amazon S3 integration easier to manage. BucketList allows a user to navigate their Amazon Bucket via a treeview to the file that they need. Or they can navigate to a folder or location on the Amazon account and upload a file from within the ExpressionEngine Publish form. Very Very cool stuff indeed. So make sure to check Stephen’s new add-on out as it is a hit. And when things slow down we will do a proper review.

This tutorial will show you how to add a calendar to your ExpressionEngine based website. And as an example we will be using our Tudobem template. The HTML/CSS and necessary ExpressionEngine code will all be included. So make the jump to the full page article to read more.

So another year has passed. Most of us have gorged ourselves on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years feasts. Now is the time for reflection and planning. I know I have a list of items that I want to learn, do, accomplish and create this next year. 2010 is going to be fun. After all… this is the year Hal comes to life and takes us to space right?

Anyway, I compiled a list of top blog posts from EETemplates and Ranked the templates….

So after a 3 week or so hiatus it appears that we are back online. At this point in time the redesign is just that… a redesign. While I had grandiose plans for the relaunch it was taking a lot longer than I suspected due to personal issues and I just needed for something to be done… so here it is… the all new design for EETemplates.com. Hope you like it. If you find any bugs let me know. Unless you are using IE6.

Oh. And all of the templates are currently 1.6.x only. I am working on converting and making some slight updates to some of the templates for EE 2.0 but due to some dependencies that our templates have on third party add-ons we need to wait till those are updated. Once they are we will do a quick test just to make sure everything is a-ok and then release our templates for 2.0. I am excited as we have a really cool module installer for 2.0 to make installation for new installs a breeze.

After a few hiccups the crew over at EllisLab have finally put their baby out in the public for evaluation. ExpressionEngine 2.0 Public Beta has been released. Congrats to Leslie and the EE crew.