#ellislab

The folks at EllisLabs introduced some big changes to their support structure yesterday – essentially tech support is longer included with the $299 license you purchase for every EE installation.

To be honest, I'm not sure if this really is a big deal for me. I barely relied on their tech support because it was too slow, or didn't support the particular feature I was asking about. The #eecms community on Twitter has been much more responsive and helpful.

Don't get me wrong - I see EllisLab's move as a bit of a slap in the face as well, but EllisLab isn't what makes EE great. It's the community and great add-ons developers. With (hopefully) a dedicated StackExchange site for ExpressionEngine on the way, the community will have a centralized place for support that will likely be better, faster and more effective than EllisLab's support ever was. (I don't want to knock them down completely - they did help me, it's not that they were of no help at all - but we all know it could have been better, faster, etc.).

Most of the websites created in my studio are built in LAMP environments. And for the PHP work I almost exclusively use the CodeIgniter framework by EllisLab. CodeIgniter performs well, is powerful and easy to work with, and has a large user base. Because of this I have a lot of faith in what EllisLab does.

That said I have always been less than impressed with their publishing product, ExpressionEngine. The experience design is quite ambiguous throughout and it seems cumbersome overall. Which is precisely why I was blown away when I discovered MojoMotor, their “publishing engine that does less.”

MojoMotor is one of the most simplified and logical CMS solutions I’ve yet seen. It’s exactly the type of system I’d expect from EllisLab. Integration is simple enough and I’m confident a child could easily learn how to use it.

It’s functionality is basically limited to the following tasks:

Edit content with a WYSIWYG editor.

Add/remove pages and re-order via drag and drop.

Manage layouts.

Manage users with admin and editor permissions.

What is CodeIgniter :

CodeIgniter is a php framework written by Ellislab Inc "Its goal is to enable developers to develop projects much faster than writing code from scratch, by providing a rich set of libraries for commonly needed tasks, as well as a simple interface and logical structure to access these libraries", its first stable release was published on February 28, 2006. and the latest stable release was published on April 07, 2011.

CodeIgniter is what you need if you are looking for a framework :

Stable

Secure

Speed

Easy to use

Organized

With clear documentation

Where can i get CodeIgniter :

You can download CodeIgniter from the official web site:

http://codeigniter.com/downloads/

You can also read the User Guide:

http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/