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March 24, 2008
New PBDH Website
We launched a brand new site over at the day job and I have to say I’m pretty excited about it. It was a long, drawn out process—as internal processes often are—but in the end it worked. Probably because in the eleventh hour we scrapped two years of careful planning and just went with our gut and redesigned the whole thing. Three weeks and a couple of long nights and weekends later the new pbdh.com site went live. While we did redesign at the last minute, the core functionality of the backend (Expression Engine) was the effort of a lot of planning, and it did remain intact. That and an employee photo shoot that I art directed and shot myself involving some three thousand photos.
I don’t talk about the day job around here too much, but I have to say our little firm is doing really well. We’ve just rebranded and our approach to design has matured quite a bit since I started five years ago. I’m liking where we are heading quite a bit. And hopefully it shows in the new site. Check it out when you have some time and don’t miss Devin’s inaugural blog post, it really nails where PBDH is headed. And, bookmark the PBDH blog, as I and a few others plan on spending a fair amount of time writing there.
Geoffrey Smith sez:
Thanks Kevin. There’s lots of kinks to work out still but it’s holding up fairly well so far.
How’s the bike riding? The shoulder feeling any better?
Cheers!
Posted at March 26, 2008 2:22 PM
Kevin sez:
Ha, the shoulder was doing great till I got taken out in the first road race of the season. I was sitting 10th wheel at 200 meters when the guy in 8th crashed and took me and a teammate down with him.
I suffered a grade two separated shoulder and got back on the bike this past weekend.
Holly cow, I just noticed y’all did 32 unique templates. That’s crazy man.
Posted at March 27, 2008 12:48 PM
Geoffrey Smith sez:
Well, there’s 32 unique pages built with Expression Engine’s template system. But a lot of those are sharing CSS—so it’s not really as complicated as it sounds.
Posted at March 27, 2008 2:54 PM
Kevin sez:
Nice work there Geoff.
Posted at March 25, 2008 11:16 PM