How I Fell in Love with Expression Engine

You may be as alarmed as I was to discover that I get really excited about a content management system. But I do.  There are some open source CMS’s that I’ve tried.  But the one that I was originally introduced to by fellow business owner Alison Rodriguez of Wedding Chicago, who uses it from the client side to update her site and write her blogs, is Expression Engine. I’ve come to understand that the inexpensive fee that is charged for the lifetime use of an install of EE is WELL worth it.  They system is so clean, well monitored, updated and user friendly – and the support of the administrators and community is amazing.

I spent about a 1/2 year (and part of that time nauseated in bed from pregnancy!) training myself by building a site in Expression Engine, and spent a good deal of my time scratching my head and reading the how-to and technical forums, but each time I learned something new I was like a kid in the candy store. I was just so excited at what I could achieve. I would literally jump up and down and clap hands – real dorky, I know – and exclaim that the makers of EE gave me another reason to love my job as a web designer and developer.

So, this is the reason I’ve created a blog for EE.  Aside from just gushing about it from time to time, I decided to make a dedicated place to document some of the finer points of the system.