Over the years Angela (my wife) and I have created and built up a few businesses. People often ask me what are the ‘must do’s’ and I often speak to Universities / business groups about these ideas.
This article is part two, and perhaps the most controversial, of the series: don’t trust professionals. Enjoy…
On November 26, we held our first ‘Socials’ event where a large group of agencies and individuals discussed issues that arose from the article ‘We all have the same problem’. It was a great event and we had a full house with guests from the length and breadth of the United Kingdom.
I’ve been organising our development workflow with an aim to start putting out more small plugins and extensions. They now live at GitHub: http://github.com/erskinedesign/, and I’ll keep adding more as I build them. This post’s purpose is to tell you that, and also quickly mention our current approach to add-on development.
Over the years I have created and built up a few businesses. People often ask me what are the ‘must do’s’ and I often speak to Universities / business groups about these ideas.
This article is part one, and perhaps the most important, of the series: cash is king. Enjoy…
The previous part of this little series saw us fighting through some motivation/direction problems, and the realisation that even non-client projects need managing and scoping properly, right from the word go. We also found our ‘fuck yeah’ design direction (as I call it); a visual approach that would give us a decent platform from which to design the actual website pages effectively.
A while ago I posted, on my personal site, a plugin that truncated text in ExpressionEngine without breaking words - it removed html, wrapped it in a specified tag and added some optional link text on the end. It has been revamped and released here under the “Erskine” banner.
ExpressionEngine related entries can be prohibitive. This module allows you to use full weblog:entries tag functionality for related entries. No hack required. (PHP 5 only)
We announced the launch of the iPhone version of the Erskine Design website on Tuesday. This alternative version of the site is located in a subdomain of the main erskinedesign.com domain, but both versions run on the same ExpressionEngine install. I thought there’d be a number of people out there who might be interested how I did it. So here you go…
I feel a need to let you know just what a disorganised person I am: I have the worst memory and attention span of anyone I know. Ask my mum, girlfriend or friends and they will tell you of their years of frustration. But it’s not my inability to get things done, it’s my inability to actually remember what it is I’m supposed to be doing!
Our reasons for redesigning our agency site will not be covered in vast detail in this bunch of articles. I’ll mostly be talking about our physical design process and decision making, but I think a little bit of backstory is necessary.
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