ExpressionEngine 2.0 Workshop

Information About the Workshop

• Date and Location
• Target Audience
• Content Covered
• Requirements & What to bring
• Costs and Registration

Date and Location

Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010
Time: 9 - 5pm
Location: Center for Digital Imaging Arts in Georgetown, Washington D.C.

This one day event will run from 9-12, break for lunch, and continue from 1-5.  We will provide some coffee and light breakfast food, but lunch will not be provided.  There are a number of affordable restaurants in the area though and we will try to find a place to go together.

CDIA has excellent web design and web development programs taught by leading professionals in the D.C.  They also often host Refresh DC.

Target Audience

This workshop is geared towards web designers and developers who have wanted to jump into ExpressionEngine but haven’t had the time or opportunity to get a solid foundation of this great CMS.  You do not need a programming background, although knowledge of HTML and CSS is assumed.  Experience with another CMS or blogging engine, like WordPress, would be helpful, although not necessary.

Designers and developers moving from ExpressionEngine 1.6.8 to 2.0 will also find this workshop helpful.  Advanced EE developers, please let me know if you’re interested in a more advanced EE workshop.

Content Covered

During this workshop I will take you through the process of creating a basic portfolio site using ExpressionEngine 2.0.  You will learn all of the basics for taking a site from a template to a working site.

Here is an outline of some of the specifics we will cover during the day:

• Overview of ExpressionEngine, it’s history, future, and the EE community
• Difference between EE 1.6 and 2.0
• The Control panel and settings
• EE Templates
• EE Tags
• Several Solutions to the Same Site - Leveraging ExpressionEngine’s flexibility
• Addons
• How to best continue learning

Requirements &What to Bring

Please make sure you have the following when you arrive for the workshop:

• A licensed copy of ExpressionEngine 2.0 installed on a server (You can use the free 30-day trial version if you like).
• A laptop with code editing and FTP software.
• New! - Download the EE2 Workshop Accessory
• A desire to learn ExpressionEngine!

Cost and Registration

Registration is now closed for the event
There are two levels of fees for attendees:

• General Attendee $120 ($20 discount for registering before Dec. 15, 2009)
• Web Design Student or Teachers - $60

Web design students and teachers must demonstrate they are currently attending or teaching a web course. 

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