Some of my ramblings on tech, websites, and self-development.
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…
“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…
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…
“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…
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.
I’ve started creating a site to showcase my work as a web design professional. Once finished it will be live at joebailey.xyz I’m not really feeling it as much as my photography website, I don’t think the design flows that well, and it doesn’t really optimize for mobile all that well either. I think maybe…
I’ve finally started phase 3 of the redesign of my website. Phase one was to create it, learning lots of code along the way to prepare me for my University course, and also to give me the creative freedom that I hadn’t yet been able to achieve with various website builders. During phase 2 I…
Hello everyone, Welcome to my new website. Sorry for the delay, it’s been a year in the making and there’s still much to do, like implement a store and add my backlog of images to the gallery. If you encounter any problems whilst browsing, please don’t hesitate to contact me, and I’ll see what I…