Best laid plans…

Its all in the planning… If its an antique set of beautifully themed cutlery, a well made winter coat, or indeed our new website. Unfortunately, the best laid plans and all that…

One of us used to teach students how to build websites, the other worked professionally in website design with high-end fashion houses. You would of thought by now that we had this website construction stuff down to a tee, but no, we flouder and flap about getting side tracked here there and everywhere.

It should have been a case of sitting down with pencil and paper and planning the site, drawing out how we wanted it to look, annotating those sketches with ideas and features we wanted to implement… It didn’t quite go like that. Some who know us may say that its just not in our personality…

Whilst he would never admit to giving his students the option to draw their website plans after constructing the website (so they match up more closely thus resulting in higher marks) and she would never admit to skipping pencil planning altogether; they both acknowledge that planning is important; they are just not that good at it. Preferring to jump straight in, and just seeing what evolves…

EVE will ultimately be, on the whole, an unplanned, constantly evolving digital entity. It will be directed by fleeting visions, daily experience and the wants and desires of its community… There are many ways to create…