Ah finally, people are concerting to EE. Its so brilliant, you can literally use it for anything. Your problem looks like something wrong your end, I've got a few installs of EE running fine locally an done online. MAke sure you've got all the db setting right (but if the tables have been created then everything should be fine).
He's an example. You can create custom field groups in the admin panel. You create one say call it books. Then you create (withing that field group) fields called title, author, detail, review. You can make these groups optional or compulsory and you can decide whether to turn on
xhtml formatting or turn it off etc. You save this. Next you need to apply it to what EE calls a 'weblog' though you can rename this. This basicall associates that field group with a section.
The beauty is you can have all of these customised sections ('weblogs') running form a single site. You call the fields using EE special code. Here's an example. Oh and you can run a bunch of sites from a single install of EE which is cool.
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<body>
{exp:weblog:entries}
<h2>{book_title}</h2>
<h3>{book_author}</h3>
{book_review}
{/exp:weblog:entries}
</body>
This is quite self explanatory. The names (book_title, book_author, book_review) refer to the names I gave to those fields in the add/ edit field window.
When you get the hang of it you really start to see the possibilities. It's totally flexible and you can even cutomise bits or build extra bits if you want something specific. There are lots of module already available that you can download (there's a cool forum module but thats an extra $50). The site has some amazing documentation and there's a few sites dedicated to EE. Check the video intros from the Ellis Lab people
here.
And I promise I don't work for them.
Pete.
