On Wednesday 2nd June 2010 I did my first bout of public speaking at the EECI2010 conference in San Francisco. The presentation lasted 50 minutes and was followed by 30 minutes of informal and interesting discussion.
I think it went really well, and the nice folk that either spoke to me afterwards or tweeted about it seemed to get something out of it, which I was most concerned about.
In hindsight, my examples of editorially designed publications off the web probably weren’t utilised in the greatest way – I’m not sure if I used them effectively to fully articulate what I was trying to talk about. Also the projector in the space wasn’t the greatest, and some of the slides didn’t really work as a result.
Anyway, here’s the slides (download hi-res PDF – 100mb) and a bunch of references for your viewing pleasure.












































































































































6 comments for:
Editorial design with ExpressionEngine
Wow, great references, the slides speak for themselves truly inspiring. Wish I was there to hear what you have to say about it. Is there any videos or any way to check it?
Thanks for sharing,
Paulo Canabarro
— 10/06/10 at 17:32
Cheers Paulo – there will be videos of all the talks, though I’m unsure of whether they’ll be publicly available; conference attendees have paid for a DVD you see.
Thanks for your comment.
Gregory
— 13/06/10 at 11:31
I would also love to hear your speech. I have a small publication online and I am really interested in seeing how to use editorial design effectively with ExpressionEngine.
Being a designer myself I hate to see all articles with the same layout, and I’ve been wanting to take a more personalised approach to our featured articles, but I still haven’t got my head around how I need to set everything up in EE and make it future proof other than using static pages.
If there’s a way to purchase the DVD, watch the speech or even just listen to a recording of it, that would be great.
Kevin Selles
— 17/06/10 at 01:53
Hey Gregory,
I just wanted to warn you that the current download link doesn’t work (at least for me), so the slides are available on note and point - http://noteandpoint.com/documents/pdf/gregorywood-eeci2010slides.pdf
Would love to see the presentation live. ;)
Oh well, maybe next time.
Cheers!
Toni Kukurin
— 06/08/10 at 22:37
Hi,
Thanks for sharing this, there’s lot of inspiring stuff !
I’ve got a question about one slide, the blue one at the end with “simple + complicated = textarea” :
Do you mean that when you want a simple but really flexible layout (like the one you make on this website), you can’t create a grid system and have to rely on a big textarea with handcoded content ?
Sylvain Ceccaldi
— 31/08/10 at 10:07
Hi Sylvain, thanks for your comment. It’s not a completely serious slide, but you’re right, it essentially refers to the way I design and publish content, with one big textarea into which I paste custom HTML code for each entry, which then gets styled in a separate stylesheet.
Greg
— 31/08/10 at 21:54