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It’s all about the journey

October 8, 2016 by helenng Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: User Experience Design Tagged: research, user experience design, web design

The Bike Shed: Revisited

September 28, 2016 by helenng Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Content Management, Design for Web Content Tagged: content management, css, design, html, javascript, mysql, php, project, responsive design, the bike shed

Seminar: CSS Flexbox

February 10, 2016 by helenng 2 Comments
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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…]

Posted in: Content Management Tagged: content management, css, flexbox, html, presentation, seminar

S – E – woah

January 15, 2016 by helenng Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: SEO Tagged: branding, design, seo, social media & seo, user engagement, user experience

The Bike Shed: Part 3 (The End)

December 1, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

The Bike Shed: Part 2

November 24, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

The Bike Shed: Part 1

November 15, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment
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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…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

Small Business Website: The Bike Shed

November 7, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: css, design, design for web content, html, project, the bike shed, web design, website

What’s Your Type?

November 1, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

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…]

Posted in: Design for Web Content Tagged: aesthetics, typography, web design, web typography, website

The Hard Way

October 21, 2015 by helenng Leave a Comment

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…]

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