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Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Wednesday 5th May 2004
This is really cool! It’s those BASICS about templates and css I’ve never understood. I have so little time, and I usually forget what I read by the time I get to use it, so your tutorial is great.
I finally made it to the tutorial 2 and can’t figure out how you got put the footer in the template. Did I miss it?
Posted by Christine (The high desert) on Friday 28th May 2004
Also, the PREVIEW for the comment isn’t working right, it put part of YOUR comment into mine, but then it posted ok.
It’s again including part of your comment, not my previous comment. I’m using firefox right now, and that may have to do with it.
Posted by Christine (The high desert) on Friday 28th May 2004
The footer text first appears in tutorial 1, step 13 - it then gets styled in tutorial 2, step 9/13b/13c/14a/14b/14c. If you ever get totally stuck, you can follow one of the links to ‘view my site at this step’ and then view the source and compare it with your own. I don’t use firefox, but look for something like ‘source’ in the menus.
For example tutorial 2, step 15c is here:
http://www.leoandmeg.com/welcome/toast_site/tutorial2_step14c
From tutorial 2 onwards, you can see the css by adding ‘_css’ (without the quotes) to the end of the url. I.e. http://www.leoandmeg.com/welcome/toast_site/tutorial2_step14c_css
With the comment preview, I have to admit that I didn’t spend the greatest amount of time making sure it all worked right...sorry 
Glad you like the tutorials though
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Saturday 29th May 2004
The link for “Simple E-commerce Examples Using ExpressionEngine And pMachine Pro” has been changed. The new link is: www.knomad.net/ee/64/.
Cheers
Posted by Robert () on Tuesday 11th January 2005
THanks for letting me know Robert
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Friday 14th January 2005
Hello Leonard -
The Expression Enging support team sent me to your site. Thanks very much for putting this together.
One of the things that I was looking for was how to convert an existing site into Expression Engine. It says in the menu that that’s coming soon. Have you got ANY material at all that might help?
Posted by Kevin (Vancouver BC) on Friday 4th March 2005
hi,
i wanted to thank you for the nice information about ee, buti was looking forward to see information about converting a static html based website into ee.
is there any manuals or tutorials to help in this area?
appreciate any help in that, because i’m new to the ee world.
Regards
FADI
Posted by fadi diab () on Tuesday 26th July 2005
Hey Fadi,
I’m afraid I’m not really familiar with what may be out there on the subject, although the EE support forums would be a good starting point. I’m planning to take the time to finish my tutorials and bring the existing ones up to date, but it could be a while yet. Sorry I’m not much help,
Leonard
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Sunday 14th August 2005
I’m considering using EE for a school website and intranet but need an event calendar (for obvious reasons). You mention this in your list of upcoming tutorials, do you have any info on this or know of anyone using EE to implement events calendars? I looked at php-calendar briefly but integrating it with EE membership seems a bit difficult.
Posted by Brett (Arlington, VA) on Tuesday 23rd August 2005
I think a calendar tutorial is definitely in order, and I have some time on Saturday so let me see what I can come up with. Do you have an example of how you might want the calendar to look like/work, such as another school website? I don’t know of any websites specifically that use EE for an events calendar but there must be quite a few out there: it was one of the features I was most interested in when I purchased EE.
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Wednesday 24th August 2005
This calendar: http://lehs.lapeer.org/Calendar/ could use a facelift but has most of the basic features I think are needed. Basically a centrally managed (by a few designates) calendar that is “drillable” and searchable. In my case it should be viewable only by members. Seems like the capability is in EE but it is always implemented from the perspective of “see the date’s I’ve blogged on” rather then just a basic calendar of events. I’ve done a lot of searching but you are the only person I could find that mentions this type of calendar. I agree that there must be more people out there doing this but I haven’t found them. Thanks for the quick response.
Posted by Brett (Arlington, VA) on Wednesday 24th August 2005
btw, the example I gave is php-calendar (http://php-calendar.sourceforge.net/). There is an incredible open source calendar project going on over at http://www.washington.edu/ucal/index.html that might be fun to try to integrate some day but it’s more than I need at the moment (and would require more time than I have currently).
Posted by Brett (Arlington, VA) on Wednesday 24th August 2005
Ok: I’ve run out of time for today, but I’ve made a good start so it should be finished soon. You might even be able to guess how to finish without the rest of the tutorial.
Essentially when finished, it will display a very vanilla calendar with events on it. It won’t look very good because there are so many infinite combinations of styles and colours. But it will be a basis from which to experiment with.
I like the ideas behind the UW Calendar project; though I think it would definitely be a job to integrate that into a school website.
Anyway, You can see what I’ve done so far at:
http://www.leoandmeg.com/welcome/tutorial/tutorial6
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Saturday 27th August 2005
I took a look at your tutorial. Looks perfect. I’m goign to try to implement it this week sometime so I’ll let you know how it goes. As for style, that’s what css is for right? 
Posted by Brett (Arlington, VA) on Tuesday 13th September 2005
are you planning on updating thi site with more current tutorials?
Posted by walter (vancouver) on Monday 17th April 2006
I’ve got one calendar tutorial that’s almost written, but it’s unlikely they’ll be any more. It’s very time-consuming to write tutorials this detailed…
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Tuesday 18th April 2006
Very helpful - I’ve been using ee for a while now, but the events calendar was something I needed to know. Please - keep up the excellent work!
Posted by Jim (Hilversum, The Netherlands) on Wednesday 11th October 2006
Thanks for the compliment Jim! I’m glad I could help. If it wasn’t so time-consuming, I would most definitely keep up the work!
Posted by Leonard (Madison, USA) on Wednesday 11th October 2006
well, helpfull and easily to understand. big +
Thanks
Best Regards
3DSL Eugen
Posted by 3dsl Eugen (Germany) on Saturday 2nd December 2006
Excellent work! Very useful indeed!
Posted by myspace design () on Monday 21st July 2008