Discuss: Erskine Design Redesign
by Simon Collison
- Editorial Comments
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Great article ! I know you from the Agile Record website for the upcoming Expression Engine 2 and I love your style and the clean & great job you’re doing.
I think I’m going to suggest this physical project area thing to my boss, it’s such a great idea !
I also saw that you had nice relationships for the “key people” blocks on your website and I understand now why it was useless to crawl the web to find this plugin. You’ve been developping yours :) Is there a way I could get my hands on it ?
Anyway, keep it up, Erskine rocks !
posted at 11:17 am on August 4, 2009 by benjamindavid
3 English People
Great article.
The Erskine Design introduction statement reads, “Erskine Design passionately build accessible, dynamic and stylish websites without cutting corners.”
That’s an interesting collective noun. I expected to see builds, the singular form, rather than build. But, given the right context and goal, it may be desirable.
posted at 12:24 pm on August 4, 2009 by kaleb.pederson
4 Build vs Builds
This point keeps cropping up, and I agree its confusing, but apparently the copy on the site (that part at least) is correct. To think I have A-grades at English and still don’t know. Oh dear.
We (especially our admin/proofer Vicky) double-checked when we first relaunched, and we’ve had quite a few emails about it, so naturally we triple-checked since. I suppose that because Erskine Design is a collective or group of people, it helps to think of it as “we build”, rather than “we builds”.
I still wouldn’t bet my house on it though.
posted at 12:36 pm on August 4, 2009 by Simon Collison
5 Nature Of Relationships plugin
In reference to a comment about this above, I’ve been chatting with our man Glen, who built that plugin. We did have plans to release it as we often release our plugins and modules. Mind you, our Jamie suggests that similar functionality can be achieved with Brandon Kelly’s FieldFrame or Leevi Graham’s LG Data Matrix, or one of those. Sorry to be fuzzy – we will write a Labs post about it. Its on our list.
posted at 12:42 pm on August 4, 2009 by Simon Collison
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Thanks a lot for your very fast answer ! Too bad Playa can’t do such a thing, maybe in the 3rd version :) I’ll take a deeper look at FieldFrame and LG Data Matrix waiting for your post on Erskine Labs.
Thanks again !
posted at 01:48 pm on August 4, 2009 by benjamindavid
7 Hello there!
Wild guess: That Ewan McGregor thing refers to his saying “Hello there!” in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith. Am I right?
posted at 03:47 pm on August 4, 2009 by Reverend Duck
8 Ewen McGregor
@Reverend Duck: Wrong! If I was ever going to use a Star Wars line it’d be the oft used “I have a bad feeling about this”.
However, it is a film reference. In Trainspotting when he’s kipping on a settee in a hallway, somebody walks by and – dazed – he says “Hellooo” in a friendly, confused way.
Since I saw that in 1994 I’ve always preferred to say “Hello” rather than “Hi” or “Alright?” as it just seems infinitely more friendly, more approachable. This was my argument for “Hello” when designing our homepage.
Long story for a tiny detail, but there you go.
posted at 04:15 pm on August 4, 2009 by Simon Collison
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@Simon: In that case, here’s hoping we’ll get to see “Hello there!” in your next redesign! ;)
posted at 04:31 pm on August 4, 2009 by Reverend Duck
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Thanks for this timely article. We’re in the process of redesigning our own website, and if there’s one thing to take from this (as the PM) it’s to run it like any other client project.
Oh, and the concensus here is build not builds, in the same way that Amazon sell books, rather than sells books, but this could be a US/UK thing.
posted at 06:24 am on August 5, 2009 by jimmoran
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Great read. Really love reading the process of others. Makes it much more worthwhile to hear the story behind the story.
posted at 11:14 am on August 4, 2009 by adellecharles