Luc Latulippe

If you view my site in an RSS reader, you’ll have noticed the past few months that several posts keep popping up multiple times. I use Feedburner to generate some kinda fancy enhanced RSS feed for your browsing pleasure, but everything is pointing to it being the culprit in all this, so I’m giving it the boot. I’ll be deleting that feed soon, so please replace it in your reader with this one:
http://www.luclatulippe.com/index.php/site/rss_2.0/

Also, I’m not even here right now; I post-dated this just because I can. Because it makes me feel like I have robots back home doing my bidding. Boo-ha-ha-ha-ha-haa!

That is all.

Here’s a smart article by Simon Collision, the Creative Director of Erskine Design, on the subject of the recent redesign of their own website.

What rang loudest for me was when they mentioned treating this internal project as though it were a client project. It’s precisely the sort of advice I would give to a designer or illustrator, and it’s precisely the advice I’ve ignored while redoing my own site. And by “redoing” I mean “it’s been about a year and I’m still at it because I keep letting other projects and stuff get in the way.” Nice.

Simon writes:

Internal projects drift—we all know it. Client deadlines take precedence, so we ran this as a client project. We designated a proven project manager, a design lead, development assistants, and someone who ensured we covered the legal angle. We ran everything in Basecamp and Backpack. The project was on the agenda for our weekly meetings. The core team reported to the whole team, and took the flack for project slippage.

Go read it. I have work to do.

Happy Gay Pride wherever you are! My new site design is up and the final bits should all be loaded up later this week (including fixing how crappy this looks in RSS readers!).

Designer Tim Van Damme shares some sound advice, albeit on the heels of a very sour experience with a bad client. Read about it here.