November 2011 Recap

Nick Benson: Building a Simple, Responsive Website with ExpressionEngine

Covered some of the basics of building a simple blog based website with ExpressionEngine using the new TwinCities-EE.com as an example.

Highlights / Links

• View and download the slides from slideshare
• RSS template
• Disqus Commenting platform
• Easy iCalendar add-on
• Disabling index.php with .htaccess
• Structure page management add-on
• SEO Lite meta management add-on
• Complex Conditionals
  • IfElse add-on
  • Switchee add-on
• Twitter Template Workaround
  • Twitter's advanced search form
  • Twitter's RSS feed of advanced search results
  • AJW Feed Parser add-on
  • Tweetify tweet formatting add-on
• Minimee CSS/JS minification and caching add-on
• css3-mediaqueries.js library for enabling media queries in IE8 and below

Brian Litzinger: Upcoming Features from BoldMinded; Preload/Replace

Brian showed off some fancy new features, still in beta, for his Wyvern and Blueprints add-ons.

He also discussed using preload/replace to pass variables into snippets; see this blog post by Low for more details.

Josh Anderson

Josh demo'd a new website, still in beta, that featured some nice front-end work, including a slick paralax image slider.

Angela Norlen

Angie provided some insanely delicious peanut butter / cookie dough stuffed whoopie pies.

People

• Josh Anderson, The Nerdery
• Nick Benson, PressEnter
• Daniel Edwins, Neuger Communications Group
• Jason Dicks, The Nerdery
• Randy Geise, Geise+Design
• Sarah Hicks, Sarah Lynn Design
• Jeremiah Isaacson, PictureMe Universe
• Brian Litzinger, BoldMinded / The Nerdery
• Angie Norlen, The Nerdery
• Than Tibbets, Dirigible
• Adrienne Travis, The Nerdery
• Ryan Wilkinson, PressEnter

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