EETemplates.com

I said I would post some larger images of the override.css that I have been toying with so people could make out some of the details. Just to be clear this is not as robust an overhaul as the override that Leevi Graham has posted. But I like it.

If you are interested in testing this out a bit just Email Me

Pictures on the comments page. Make sure to leave a comment and let me know what you would like to see changed.

Yeay! We’ve relaunched EETemplates.com! The biggest change is that we are now using ExpressionEngine 2 as the foundation for the site and loving it! Nothing really complex going on behind the scenes as EE does a great job of handling sites like this without the need of any add-ons. The only one we are using is FreeForm.

If you are looking for the templates they are still available. I will be releasing another blog template this week after I package it up. I am removing the demos as it was becoming a bear keeping them up to date and locking them down so spammers couldn’t use them as their play place.

If you are interested in blogging about how you use ExpressionEngine just contact me and we’ll make it happen. I am looking for add-on reviews, tutorials, code tid-bits, new add-on previews and news.

I am making some changes here at eetemplates.com. over the course of the last 2 years I have tried to figure out a way to implement templates into the CMS that I love (ExpressionEngine) thinking that there are others out there that would value having a resource where they could download a template and pick it apart to learn EE faster (we all know there is a learning curve). I know back in the day when I was doing more WordPress and Joomla development that is one of the ways I learned how those CMSs worked. Unfortunately the market for templates for ExpressionEngine is not mature enough yet to justify the time in creating templates and packaging them up. I think fundamentally this is because EE is meant to be extremely flexible and the websites that the users of EE are developing are a testimony to this. I think there will be a need in the future but for now I am going to switch the focus of this site for a time.

It’s been awhile since I have done anything for you all so I made all of the templates FREE.

I am kicking around the idea of changing the focus of this site to deal more with snippets of code for ExpressionEngine rather than selling templates. I just have not had the time to focus on them like I should. So until further notice all of the templates are free. I hope it helps some of you.

ExpressionEngine Camp is coming to Denver Colorado on Oct 22nd. I really wish I could be there. And I hope that this is a sign of things to come with people organizing more EE meetups around the country. There are very few conferences for our community so whenever someone has the guts to put one together I have to give em some credit. If you are anywhere in the area I suggest you go. It should prove to be a fun day of learning and networking. We are a sponsor and everyone that attends will be receiving a FREE LICENSE of the template of their choice. So head on over to the ExpressionEngine Camp website and read up on the specifics

I am typing this on my iPad from while on the airplane back to Mobile from EECI. It was such a quick trip but pack full of goodness. There were lots of things that I learned on this trip. For instance, the next release of ExpressionEngine is going to be a non-beta-too-legit-to-quit version. That’s right. The next version is 2.1. Between that and the addition of many of the add-ons that the pro network community depends on I think it is high time we started releasing some more EE templates and building our custom sites on ExpressionEngine 2.1. This is something I have been waiting on for quite some time.

One of the other items learned was the addition of MojoMotor to the EllisLab family. It looks really slick. If you want you can check out the video at their site. Some of the highlights are that it will be $49.95. Will be extensible. Will be easy to edit for clients. Will allow for custom themes. This is in no way going to replace ExpressionEngine for us though. EE has a feature that many of the other CMSs do not which is custom fields and from what we learned MM will not have that same functionality. I could see using it for small sites that need a simple brochure-like site. But it is a far cry from what we have gotten used to with EE. And for those that say this is the reason why EllisLab dropped core… I seriously doubt it. There was a ton of functionality in 1.6s core version. There is no way you can compare the two.

Well it appears I have won another contest. This has got to be the luckiest season in my life for winning contests or give-a-ways (as my Bud Adam would say… If I fell into a barrel of thumbs…) So Brandon Kelly is the Owner of Pixel and Tonic. He makes the most famous FF Matrix and WYGWAM as well as other notable add-ons for ExpressionEngine. He used to do business under his name but recently relaunched as Pixel & Tonic. He was giving away a number of prizes and it appears I have won the Grand Prize! w00t!

To be honest I have been putting off this blog entry. A lot transpired over the week of South by Southwest (SxSW). All of it good. But it kind of leaves me waxing poetic like a kid that has just left summer camp and all of his friends are scattered across the world. Actually that is exactly the feeling I had when I got on the plane to come home. Anyway, make the jump to read the skinny on SxSW and why you should be there next year.