gregorywood.co.uk

Editorial design with ExpressionEngine

Short url | 6 comments

Editorial design with ExpressionEngine

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.

References in order of appearance

  1. Whoooz! Webmedia
  2. Colly
  3. Space.com
  4. Universe Today
  5. NASA
  6. Starchild
  7. NotebookCheck
  8. NotebookReview
  9. Techno Talks
  10. BBC Food
  11. Waitrose
  12. Jamie Oliver
  13. Fray
  14. Jason Santa Maria
  15. Yaron Schoen
  16. Team Fortress 2
  17. Wired iPad App
  18. Brandon Kelly’s Matrix

6 comments for:

Editorial design with ExpressionEngine

  1. 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 CanabarroPaulo Canabarro's avatar — 10/06/10 at 17:32

  2. 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.

    GregoryGregory's avatar — 13/06/10 at 11:31

  3. 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 SellesGreg's avatar — 17/06/10 at 01:53

  4. 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 KukurinGreg's avatar — 06/08/10 at 22:37

  5. 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 CeccaldiGreg's avatar — 31/08/10 at 10:07

  6. 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.

    GregGreg's avatar — 31/08/10 at 21:54