Calculating EMs with SCSS

Earlier this year Erskine made the switch to SCSS and I’ve really loved what its done to our front-end workflow. One thing I’m particularly fond of is how SCSS has improved how we’re calculating EMs.

Announcing erskinedesign.com v3

This year marks Erskine’s seventh birthday. It’s also been three long years since we last refreshed the Erskine site and a lot has happened. Some of the faces have changed but our ethos remains the same: to build superlative websites with thoughtful design and ingenious technology.

Responsive design: stories from the coalface

Lately, the web industry has been preoccupied with responsive design. Questions, approaches and opinions abound.

Surviving a social media storm

Here at Erskine we’re finding that our clients are taking more active control of their social media channels and integrating them directly with their website strategy. In the space of two years, mainly due to convergence around Twitter and Facebook, social media has gone from being a reasonably niche activity to an essential marketing and customer service tool for almost all organisations. One of the reasons I’ve joined Erskine is to help clients understand and make the most of the potential these channels offer.

Introducing Gridpak

This week we quietly launched Gridpak, a tool that we hope will dramatically speed up the process of creating with Responsive Web Design layouts.