Erskine Design v2
3rd January 2009
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…
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The EE 2.0 example site
3rd January 2009
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.
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Building Beautiful Websites with EE - a FOWD workshop from Erskine Design
8th December 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…
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Why I use Dropbox, and how it enables killer scrapbooking
3rd December 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”.
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I am not John Cleese
27th November 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…
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Belle & Sebastian, Burgerman, and some other mates all rolled into one neat Christmas competition
20th November 2008
I have to blog about this competition, seeing as it involves a mix CD created by a musician I once booked and purchased tomato soup and mash for; it has artwork by my friend and office pal; its on a website built by someone who taught me all I know, and it is facilitated by a company run by a friend I’ve known for 30 years; some cash goes to a charity researching a disease which hit my family hard this year. No arguments.
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Trailer: Erskine and the Great Nottinghamshire Bike Ride - a tale of horror and woe
20th November 2008
As previously posted, in June 2008, four members of the Erskine team completed the Great Notts Bike Ride 50 mile route. Well, some months back we edited some of Greg’s shaky footage into a rough-around-the-edges horror movie pastiche thingummy. Its not big or clever, but we like it. You might not, but if you’ve 3 minutes to kill, have a peek (view bigger on Blip):
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Eulogy
14th November 2008
You all know that I believe our blogs can be as much for personal reflection as they can be about bloody web design. For me its a cathartic exercise. This post is typical of that.
A couple of months have passed now since my Dad passed away, and (as I was warned by friends) the impact of this is having a greater affect as time moves on. I’ve moved past the initial business-like, pragmatic and stoic few weeks, and am now entering a gradual heightening of anger, upset and confusion that eluded me at the time. This will eventually lead to a more manageable, easier period I hope.
So, I wanted to archive my eulogy from the funeral. The large number of people who showed their support on that day made me very proud, and for those of you that wanted to read the eulogy in your own time or couldn’t be there on the day, well - here it is…
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Fleet Foxes, Nottingham
3rd November 2008
I haven’t written one of my typical ill-researched and untidy off-the-cuff gig reviews for some time, perhaps because I haven’t really been to many gigs this year. I think my ill-judged attendance at a Verve comeback gig earlier this year put me off. Anyway, the balance has been amply restored thanks to a stunning evening with good friends and Fleet Foxes at Nottingham Trent University (bloody students) last night.
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Despite apparent bankruptcy, Iceland can still fly an entire pub to London
18th October 2008
Yesterday I found myself sat once again in one of my favourite Reykjavik bars. I sipped a cup of cold Thule, served by an Icelandic lady, half-conversing in my rusty Íslenska. “Kemur þú oft hingað?” I asked. She laughed, politely. I suppose this would all make some kind of sense, were it not for the fact that I was about 30 minutes walk from King’s Cross.
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