A little drive-by entry again!

I’ve been working on my first ExpressionEngine site, and I am totally and utterly in love. As someone who is a designer first and foremost, the way you build sites with EE is amazingly easy, and the ease of use for the client is great. I also love their URL structure, which I had heard some criticism about. A designer I spoke to said it was a bad idea for the URL to reflect the template system as the back end should be hidden from the user - but I thought that it’s brilliant exactly because of that: you can name your template groups and templates to describe the content, making it extremely user-friendly and semantic.

I was originally apprehensive about the browser interface, being used to hand coding in Dreamweaver and uploading my files, but after a short period of getting used to it, I find it ok now. I would still prefer to be able to use keyboard shortcuts when editing my HTML and CSS, but writing the code in Dreamweaver before moving it to EE takes away a large amount of the hassle.

There is sooo much more I could say about ExpressionEngine, but I’ll have to get back to it when I’m not up to my eyeballs in work! Being busy is good, but I’m looking forward to getting some time to just catch up on my favourite blogs and write some more for my own as well

The EE site, which is aimed at families in the UK who have children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, will be going live soon. And I’ll definitely be working with EE in the future as well!

Hypocrisy alert: I hate it when people start a blog and then give up after a few posts. It’s deflating, when you keep checking back and nothing happens, and then you stop checking back. And even if they do continue posting at some point it’s too bad, because you’re long gone. And here I am with a blog of two posts and then nothingness.

So anyway, after a week of whimpering at the bottom of my bed with pain and a fever, I am now back to blogging duties. To start it off, here’s a quickie to boast about the new Web Designer Magazine, out now, which features a showcase of graduate talent in the UK this year - with yours truly adorning the London page!