DesignKarma got a call from an excited client the other day informing us that the email template we designed for them has been featured as a case study on Campaign Monitor. Sunny Thinking are a long time client and collaborator, and they’re delighted with the reaction to their new regular email campaigns. Check out the case study.

Whilst broadly welcoming HTML5—particularly some of the nice new form tags and attributes—I’m still trying to get comfortable with some aspects of it. As builders of the web we’re all striving for solid semantics right?

Okay, so news has been a little patchy of late, but that’s not to say it’s been quiet around here—far from it. We’ve got a number of exciting projects hatching this summer, all powered by shiny new technologies like EE2.1, HTML5 and CSS3.

Yesterday EllisLab released ExpressionEngine 2.1, marking the end of the public beta period. The new version boasts improved performance, some exciting new file management features, and a sexy new control panel. DesignKarma is thrilled to be able to start releasing EE2-powered websites this summer, starting with a major website for Northern Ireland football.

One of the biggest (if not the biggest) surprises to come out of the recent EECI Conference in San Francisco, was the unveiling of MojoMotor—Derek Allard’s (EllisLab) new pet project. MojoMotor is “The Publishing Engine that Does Less”, or a kind of micro CMS with no control panel, you simply edit pages at the front end.