Starting a fresh blog using Expression Engine
I’ve used Text Pattern and Word Press in the past as a blog tool but they never really worked out with me and I’ve heard such rave reviews about Expression Engine, I’ve decided to try it out. I intend to write a proper blog this time and not faff any more, so here we go.
The EE admin seems slick and well designed on first impressions. I’m still finding my way around, so not much to report yet. I’m using the default template while I’m figuring out how to load in a new one and integrate my own template eventually.
Word Press never really did it for me, It just seemed a bit ‘hacky’ to do the things you wanted to do. What I find nice about EE so far is that it feels more like a proper CMS rather than just a blog tool. Hopefully it’ll be a lot more flexible than Word Press.
Text Pattern on the other hand is very flexible, but I found the admin panel very painful to use and really badly designed. As I use EE I will write about the features and tools which I like and don’t like and we’ll go from there.
