The company I work for had the unique opportunity to have Jerry West, SEO expert and founder of SEO Revolution come to our office and provide training, recommend tools, and share his thoughts on the industry.  What an awesome opportunity we had.  It was Jerry’s knowledge, experience, our web team, two days and an agenda.  You can’t beat that. 

With so many popular content management systems (cms) and blogging tools on the market, it is difficult to choose which one is right for you as a developer, but also right for your clients.  After much research (and some seriously late nights) on which cms or blogging tool I thought would meet my expectations, I chose ExpressionEngine (EE).  I first learned of ExpressionEngine in a book called Blog Design Solutions written by a group of highly respected individuals in the industry.  The book didn’t compare the products, but had a chapter on the each of the more popular tools; WordPress, Movable Type, TextPattern, ExpressionEngine, and of course the option to build your own.  The first thing I did was build my own.  I thought it was great but very time-consuming.  I wrote a few different basic content management systems featuring blogs with the help of the internet and many other books.  I thought it was great fun and still do.  However, I’m not sure if that is the best option for every website and especially if time is a factor.