New Laptop, Deployment Manager, NAS and VPN

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I’d wanted to buy a new laptop for ages as mine was quite heavy and I wanted to take it to lectures, and store it in my bag but couldn’t. This meant I was looking for something quite light. I also wanted something powerful as I do a lot of media production and web development.…

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Git

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As part of my studies at Solent, we were introduced to using Git in our workflow. Git is useful as it means mistakes can be corrected by rolling back the code to a version that worked. I’d come across this before at Fluid Studios Ltd. where they were using Git Kraken, however, I’d never really…

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Web Design Portfolio

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I’d been meaning to update my portfolio site for quite a while as I wasn’t really happy with the design. The long Christmas break gave me a chance to do just that. I was inspired by this template. In my lectures, we’d been learning about Figma and UX design. I wanted to use this redesign…

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Transferring my hosting package from 1and1 IONOS to iPage

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I think transferring hosting provider was the single greatest nightmare I’ve had in my life. I bought a few domains with 1and1, hoping to get SSL certificates that were advertised, however you only get one SSL certificate per contract. I’d have to create multiple contracts for all my domains, and then would not be able…

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Don’t forget your future self – Dan Benham

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I attended a talk by Dan Benham, set up by the university, which I found really interesting. He works for Studio Republic in Winchester. He was tired of working for corporate clients and started an ethical business to combat this. His business helps charities and other ethical entities with their creative tasks. An interesting question…

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Web Components using PHP – Joe Bailey Photography

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In my Web Design and Development course, we touched on using web components and live style guides. This is the practice of having a set of components and styles that can be reused across your website. The advantage is that when something gets updated it rolls out across the whole site at the same time.…

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Wix Vs WordPress

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Now I’ve come across two instances of Wix in the past couple of months. Neither website was optimised for mobile. Wix has the option there, but it’s incredibly hard to use, you can change one thing and it will delete half the content on your site. The drag and drop editor is extremely slow, it’s…

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Flickr changes to free accounts – Joe Bailey Photography

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You might notice that my website uses Flickr to display most of the images. This is done by using an iframe of the Flickr slideshow. The reason I chose to use Flickr to display my images is that I didn’t have much experience coding at the time (I’m still not a code genius). It was…

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Logo design for a Web Developer

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My first project at university was to write a report on how I designed a set of logos to brand myself as a web developer. We had to include research, feedback and final designs. I got a C1 on this report as I found it quite hard being the first one I’ve done at university.…

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