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Erskine Design v2January 2

Approximately five minutes before we finished for Christmas and ran to the pub, we launched something we’ve been working on for over five months whenever we could - the new Erskine Design website - lets call it version 2.

None of us will be going into any detail yet about the millions of decisions we made, as we’re saving that for an exclusive article elsewhere in the coming weeks or months. Still, read on for a brief explanation…

The EE 2.0 example siteJanuary 2

In December, the secret was out, and on Christmas Eve Eve our friends at EllisLab published an interview with Greg and myself all about Agile Records.

I was in the pub at the time, having just finished for Christmas, and I have been offline in the real world for 10 days, so apologies for the delayed post. Anyway, the interview should tell you most of what you might want to know. Certainly for us as seasoned EE users this was a unique opportunity - the chance to create the default site/templates that will ship with the eagerly anticipated EE 2.0. The project was completed a few months back, so we’re chuffed to bits to finally be able to let you see a teaser page.

We also launched something else just before we ran to the pub, and I’ll no doubt stick up a quick post about that shortly.

Building Beautiful Websites with EE - a FOWD workshop from Erskine DesignDecember 8 2008

We’re very excited to announce that our man Jamie Pittock will be leading a fantastic workshop at the third Future Of Web Design in London on May 1st 2009. Its a killer, bringing together our passion for building beautiful websites with ExpressionEngine into the not unsurprisingly titled Building Beautiful Websites with ExpressionEngine half-day workshop. Read on for the details…

Why I use Dropbox, and how it enables killer scrapbookingDecember 3 2008

I think the chaps in the office reckon I’m on some sort of commission from Dropbox, so evangelical have I become about the web-based storage system recently. Well, I’m certainly not, nor has anyone asked me to write about it here today. I simply wanted to share with you why it has radically improved my efficiency, helped me manage files across two Macs, and also how I use it for killer “scrapbooking”.

I am not John CleeseNovember 26 2008

OK. Lets start this post about my book Beginning CSS Web Development with one of my favourite reviews.

...for a Brit his humor is NOT funny! Collison needs to read “Eats, Shoots and Leaves” if he wants to learn about British humor. In the meantime, just skip it; you’re not John Cleese!

That’s an American there, telling me my British humour isn’t funny. Meh, I don’t care, and everyone else thinks both myself and the book are funny. Anyway, he’s right about one thing. I am not John Cleese.

Now, if you’ve time to spare, come with me now as I embark upon a retrospective look back at the process, aiming as I am to work out whether it was really worth all the bother or not…