Important EE Concepts

While not directly pertaining to template design, I found a post in the EE forums by Rick Ellis, pMachines founder, to be very, very helpful in understanding basic EE concepts, and one that I thought prospective and current EE users might appreciate. 

In a nutshell, EE splits HTML pages and content into two separate and distinct things:  the pages are “templates” and the content are “weblogs.” This may sound straightforward, but when you start to realize that EE allows you to mix and match the two, you realize how important these concepts are.  You can, in fact, have a single template that displays more than one weblog.  I do this on my own Rippleweb blog.  The main content is one weblog, and the “sideblog” in the right column is a totally separate weblog.  When I publish an entry, I choose whether to publish it in my main weblog or my sideblog.  The template has the tags to display my main weblog content in the left, wider column, and to display my sideblog content in the right, narrower sidebar.

While helping folks with the templates here on EE Design, I have found that many people find these concepts confusing.  Hopefully, Rick’s post in this thread will help.

Speaking of great EE resources, I will be adding some links soon to other sites that EE users should find very helpful.

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