February 01, 2006
pMachine have just announced The ExpressionEngine $15,000 shootout, a competition in to find the best, new EE–based sites. I'll be a judge on the competition along with Colly, Jason, Molly, Scrivs,Cameron, Narayan, Emily Chang, Jesse, Max and Om Malik.
August 13, 2005
I thought I'd share this. Expression Engine's Control Panel, in the latest version, allows for user (or 'member') theming. I haven't noticed many of them being done so I'd thought I'd share my own. Introducing 'Green n Blue' (how imaginitive is that?!!).
July 30, 2005
Following some interesting discussion about tags I've decided to experiment a little on this site.
Like most designers, I like to keep a list of bookmarks of useful sites and resources. Over the past six months instead of saving these bookmarks in the browser, I've been posting them on this site in my 'Of Interest' section. One thing did bother me though.
July 03, 2005
I'd like to say it went without a hitch but that would be lying. I had a bit of a problem with permissions, htaccess files and ftp weirdness. Once that was all sorted EE 1.3 is now up and running.
Improvements are mainly in the backend with a redesigned control panel. Pmachine has also launched a forum module to slot in with this release which looks like a solid product which fully integrates with all of EE's functionality.
Update: Make sure you dump your cache otherwise, like me, you'll wonder why there are so many damn 404's on this site!
February 09, 2005
Following several more emails from designers, I thought i’d compile some of the questions in a follow up to Expression Engine - Designers Questions.
Many of the questions have been related specifically to the reason why I bought EE in the first place - my portfolio. You may recall some of my reasons for changing to EE, one of those reasons was the ability to add custom fields, this makes EE invaluable for both clients sites and designers portfolios.
These links are now pulled from my del.icio.us account. You can subscribe to the feed if you like.
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I'm a graphic designer from near Cardiff in the UK. I've been a designer for over ten years now and primarily work on the web. I'm still partial to a bit of print every now and then though. I used to work for Agency.com in London as an Art Director before working as a Senior Designer for the BBC in sunny Cardiff. This was all before I took leave of my senses and formed my own design consultancy, Mark Boulton Design Ltd.
I've got a thing about grids and typography and occasionally ramble on about them to anyone who will listen.
If you're after simple, clean and effective web design; let me know.