User Experience Design was the last module we did before the end of term, and it was a really great experience learning from Steph Troeth, who’s worked all around the globe for big companies doing something that she’s really passionate about. As a woman and an ethnic minority — both of which are under-represented in … [Read more…]
It’s been a while since I’ve posted — I blame the Summer (although admittedly my last post was in February…)! As the MA starts again soon, I thought it would be a good idea to catch up on the back log of posts I said I’d write before the end of term in May, so … [Read more…]
View my presentation slides on CSS flexbox. To highlight the main terms used in flexbox: important terminology are in bolded text properties are in green values are in orange WHAT IS CSS FLEXBOX? CSS flexbox or ‘Flexible Box Layout Module’, is a set of CSS properties that allow items to dynamically adjust to best fill the … [Read more…]
We just finished our SEO and Social Media module, so thought I’d write a short post on what we learnt throughout the 4 weeks. The first thing to say is that I completely underestimated the complexity of SEO; there’s so much work behind maintaining your site, keeping it fresh, and making sure it’s still sitting … [Read more…]
The Bike Shed is finally alive and kicking! It’s been a pretty adventurous 4 weeks and I’ve learnt a HUGE amount during the whole process. I’m so glad I took a few days off from work to properly sit down and fidde with bits here and there, otherwise I’d be posting this on the other … [Read more…]
We received the feedback from our interim crit this week and here’s a couple of points that came up for The Bike Shed: Good points – faithful representation of your mock up new logo looks good Things that could improve – use sample products in the shop section instead of a comprehensive list not good … [Read more…]
I’ve been starting to mark-up my business website and have managed to do a few pages, it’s not looking too great though… It’s been really hard trying to translate a design from paper to screen; everything just takes so much more effort! Being used to Illustrator and InDesign where moving things around were second-nature, web … [Read more…]
So we’ve been set our first project–a website for a small business of our choice from four: Roberto’s Italian, Deli The Art of Bloom, Florist The Bike Shed, Cycle Shop Bamboo House, Chinese Takeaway And the main points of the brief are: You’ve been commissioned to build a website for a small business retail outlet … [Read more…]
This week’s class was all about typography – not just about choosing a pretty typeface, but how it can make or break your website. The first part of our coursework for this week was to work on our XHTML Good Designs website and really think about the typographic elements: font-size, leading/line-height, typeface, how many to … [Read more…]
So I’ve learnt A LOT this week… In class, we learnt about the structural layer of the webpage: HTML. We went through its background and the syntax etc. This week’s assignment was to make a four page website, strictly using XHTML, with all the pages linking to each other. I’ve been reading Jennifer Robins’ Learning … [Read more…]