Expression Engine - finally!!
It was over 12 months ago that I wrote this article explaining the reasons why I made the decision to upgrade from pMachine to Expression Engine as my Content Management System (CMS). But a lot of other things have been going on in my life over the past year, and learning the intricacies of EE has been too tiring to contemplate.
However, I couldn’t stand the nagging thought in the back of my head that something was being left undone (it was a bit like when you avoid doing the washing or ironing), so eventually I bit the bullet and dug into the documentation and tutorials to see what EE is all about. Gaining an understanding of how EE works seemed very daunting at first, but like anything, once you get into it and begin to play around, things begin to full into place (although I’m not sure that I’ve had the “light bulb moment” that the EE team constantly refer to as yet).
Anyway, “royby.com” and “a weblog about weblogging” are now both powered by EE but I’m still on a steep learning curve as I look over the myriad of plug-ins, extensions and modules available to me. I’m also contemplating a change to the overall navigation set-up and of course there is the image gallery to get back up and running. A lot of work to come yet and a general lack of time in which to do it. However, I’ll keep plugging away at it.
The great thing is that comments are now working properly, so please, leave me a comment, as is the member registration set up.
If you have the time, I would be interested in hearing the issues you encountered with your commenting system as I am this very moment deciding between EE and wordpress for a project and comments are whats holding me up. They are an important part of the project - the problem with EE is that I’ve never implemented them before, but I am much more familiar with EE than Wordpress and the structure of the site seems to make EE a better fit.
Jon the commenting system seems to work fine on EE. I don’t encounter any problems with it.
I have it set up to validate comments before they’re published and that works fine. There are sufficient spam traps around prevent comment spam from becoming too big an issue.
I can’t be much more objective than that really. It works fine for me.
Good luck with your project
cheers
Thanks for getting back to me! I took your comment (“great thing is that comments are now working properly”) to mean that you encountered issues with the implementation. Again, thanks for the response.
ah yes, I can see how it could look that way. but I was meaning by comparison with pMachine. For some reason the pMachine commenting system went badly awry and wouldn’t work efficiently.
cheers
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