Southampton Focus is the online place to go for finding businesses in and around the area. Businesses pay for a listing on the site and get free access to Southampton Focus’ vast social network presence. Southampton Focus already had a site but decided to scrap it and start completely afresh. They chose a theme from …
I created a Vue Web App which connects to a PHP backend API communicating with a MySQL database to create and update records. I created a Stripe WebHook to listen to customer creation events and create a user in Authentication Management platform Okta and then send the new customer an email with SendGrid. I also taught the founder front-end skills to enable me to focus on the backend.
In order to use many of the new Web Technologies you first need a platform to test them on. This is my photography website. I am very passionate about photography and like to keep my website as close to the cutting edge as possible.
A local charity approached me to develop their website from a template that an external graphic designer has created. I worked closely with the designer over a 3 month period making sure that the site was pixel perfect before pushing it live.
I gave this local company’s website a design refresh. I worked closely with the client on a development site to help them reach their vision within their budget. I then went through the process of cross-browser testing before pushing the website live.
A local Pre-School needed someone to manage their website, updating content, ensuring consitency, and implementing new features. I have since helped their brand become more consistent and created a blog which I help keep up to date.
The third challenge was to create a calculator. I wanted to practise my CSS art and so chose an image of an old Casio calculator and tried to recreate it as closely as possible. It was quite a challenge creating the code for the calculator to function. It wasn’t as simple as just adding numbers …
The second challenge was to create a fitness app. I chose to make an activity tracker. I took inspiration from Lifelog, an app by Sony that I used for many years. I used the Google Maps API and created a component in Vue for the activities.
Me and Eleanor Morgan participated in the Adobe XD Challenge. I wanted to use Vue.js rather than practise my skills in XD as I view myself as more of a developer than a designer. The first challenge was to create a music player. I played around with the audio API and used some CSS animations.
I like to keep track of the TV Shows I watch. I used to do this in a Word Document and manually go to IMDb and check whether the show was running or had been cancelled and then add the TV Show to my calendar. I decided to build an app that would do this for me. This was a good introduction to Svelte and Lambda functions.
Following on from developing the HitTastic! site we had to create a site in PHP that allows users to view POI’s stored in a database, and contribute to this database. We had to do some basic styles to go along with it.
In my second year of university, I did a PHP unit where we were tasked with creating a site showing the number one songs from a certain year. We had to make a login, connect to a database, and perform a search.
This guide will help you use UFW (uncomplicated firewall) to block all traffic to your server other than traffic coming via Cloudflare, or for essential operations such as FTP and SSH. Why would you want to do this? Cloudflare will protect your site from all manner of attacks. However, your server may still be vulnerable. …
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After re-creating my portfolio with Gatsby (which uses React) and building an app for a client in Vue I feel I have more knowledge about the two JavaScript frameworks to give an informed opinion on both. When I was first starting out using these sort of frameworks I wrote this article on my thoughts. I …
I’ve been asking myself this question a lot recently after applying for quite a few web development placements. The experience has been enlightening, teaching me a great deal about the industry. I’ve been reflecting on what I’m good at in web development and what I enjoy. Whilst freelancing I’d describe myself as a Full-Stack Developer. …
In quite a few of my projects I’ve needed a quick and easy way of making a menu which scales onto mobile. I like the style that android apps have; the animated drawer, so I have replicated this. The menu is swipe aware using Hammer.js which means if you swipe right on mobile then the …
When we first started doing Data Flow Diagrams at the start of the semester I thought they were the worst thing in the world. However, as I came to understand them more and start to think about more real-world business problems that I was encountering such as creating a website for my Dad or as …
During our Web Technologies practical lessons, we have to follow a set of instructions to create a website or simple script. The lecturer has hosted the notes for the unit on Firebase. I’d looked into Firebase before but couldn’t understand how to use it. However, when an extended task came up in lesson I gave …