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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 […]

Whilst working on various projects this semester I’ve encountered the following technologies: Angular, React, Vue, and Node. I’ve experimented with them to some extent and found Node Package Manager quite useful. Initially, when I first heard about them I thought they were JavaScript Libraries like JQuery, however, they are far from it. Each technology is […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After creating my Web Design portfolio site and transferring my hosting package I was in the mood to do some web design. I’d been meaning to add a portfolio to my photography site for a long while. Whilst making the photography portfolio I created some cool code to create a gallery of images which you […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]