How's your social capital?

Here at Erskine Design we’re a relatively small team of eleven awesome individuals. In actual fact though, this small team is made up of a number of micro-teams. We’re mostly designers and developers but that can be broken down into visual and interaction designers, front- and back-end engineers and technical architects. On top of that we have responsibilities for client and team management, project and product management, marketing, sales, accounting, and personnel. The list goes on and should include customers, suppliers, external client teams and stakeholders. What all these people rely on and need from one another is trust.

EE2 language switcher extension

We’re in the process of building a multi-lingual online magazine site powered by ExpressionEngine and over last weekend I searched around for an add-on that I could use to implement the language switching part. After a quick search on Devot-ee I found a couple of potential candidates but in the end decided to roll my own. While it may be quite specific to our own needs, I thought I’d stick it up on Github and write it up here.

Create an alternative version of your ExpressionEngine website

This tutorial was written with EE1.6.x in mind. The concept holds true for EE2 but requires some modified steps. John Morton has detailed these in his own excellent write-up, How to make a mobile version of your site with Expression Engine 2, inspired by this tutorial.

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 it was done. So here you go.