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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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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rankingCoach

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I attended a workshop in Hotel Mercure Southampton Centre Dolphin on rankingCoach by Alasdair Stone. It was a very interesting event and we learnt about how to optimize website for search engines. We also learnt how to use tools such as Google My Business. I came away from the event with a lot of notes …

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Material Design

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“Make beautiful products, faster. Material is a design system – backed by open-source code – that helps teams build digital experiences” Material.io Material is a design language created by Google in 2014 for the Android platform. It has unified Android apps under a single design format. This has helped to give the Android platform a …

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Barcamp Southampton

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I went to a Barcamp in Southampton, which consists of people giving talks on things they find interesting, with a heavy bias on technology. The normal talks last 45 minutes to an hour. They also have an opportunity to give lightning talks after lunch which last about 10 minutes and can be about anything. I …

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CSS Grid

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“CSS Grid Layout is shaping up to be the layout tool we’ve always wanted on the web.” Stacy Kvernmo (September 19, 2016) In the early days of the web, developers laid things out using tables. Tables are only designed for tabular data and developers were splitting GIFs up to lay them out and create visually …

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Web Design and Development

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I’ve just started my first proper job in the Web Design and Development industry at Fluid Studios Ltd and it’s going really well. I’m also starting to get ready for university, the next big exciting chapter in my life.

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