Thank You, EllisLab
I’ve been building web sites for about 10 years. In that time I’ve seen a number of techniques come and go. During that time I’ve graduated from static, cobbled-together pages to only slightly more sophisticated “draw and slice” techniques and then to Dreamweaver-facilitated “draw and slice” and finally to hand-coded, ultra lightweight PHP/CSS sites (inspired by Mr. Abbott). While I still prefer the PHP/CSS approach for small to medium web apps and ASP.NET for larger web apps, I’ve also dabbled with content engines for my personal sites.
Sometime in 2003, I did the research and settled on EllisLab’s pMachine as the best content engine for me. It was highly flexible, reliable, and (most importantly) had a completely free version. pMachine served me very, very well over the years even if I didn’t upgrade as often as I should have. As a result, when it came time to build the University of Minnesota Lacrosse site, I had few reservations about trying its successor, ExpressionEngine.
I’ll be honest, the learning curve took me a few days to climb. I can’t really blame EllisLab for that, however, since most of the issues I encountered were due to the fact that I kept trying to apply old paradigms to a very modern product. If you’re looking for a product that comes admirably close to delivering on the promise of a web-driven site creation and management tool then I highly recommend you have a look at ExpressionEngine.
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