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title: "EECI EU 2012 - Illegally good front-end"
author: Garrett Winder
date: 2012-06-08
source: Erskine Design
weight: archive
url: https://garrettwinder.com/erskinedesign/illegally-good-frontend-eeciconf2012-eu/
---

# EECI EU 2012 - Illegally good front-end

> From the archive. Shows how Garrett got here; not his current views, services or prices. Written June 2012, Erskine Design. For what’s current, see https://garrettwinder.com/agents.md.

The EECI EU 2012 conference is Europe’s largest gathering of ExpressionEngine aficionados, drawing delegates from a wide range of countries and with a great line up of top level speakers.

## Best practices for breaking websites down into scalable, reusable components.

Last week I got the chance to go back to [Leiden](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden) for [EECI](http://eeciconf.com/) and spoke about “Illegally good front-end”. The presentation covered topics such as the anatomy of a website, our front-end workflow and how it can be constantly improved. Below is a link to the presentation as well as a few other relevant links.

### Resources

- [Illegally good front-end presentation](https://speakerdeck.com/u/gw/p/illegally-good-front-end) on Speaker Deck
- [The Ultimate Package](https://github.com/simplygoodwork/gw.ultimate_package) (Erskine's baseline front-end framework)
- [The Ultimate Package wiki](https://github.com/simplygoodwork/gw.ultimate_package/wiki) (Erskine's front-end documentation)
- [Typographic styling with SCSS](/erskinedesign/typographic-styling-scss/)
- [Planning and documenting front-end components](/erskinedesign/planning-and-documenting-front-end-components/)


You can find other articles on this topic around my site as well as on [Erskine Labs](http://erskinelabs.com/). As usual, if you’d like the original keynote presentation just shoot me an email.