Linked incase I want to find it while i’m at work, need to come up with a better way of doing this though.
work update
It’s odd how you feel compelled to update a personal weblog every so often, which is probably not how it should be done, you should update when you’ve got something to say, and I do, but i’ve not felt compelled to say it until now for some reason. Work is going well, possibly not everything I expected it too be, then I can’t tell you exactly what I was expecting. It’s certainly not my “dream job”, my dream job is getting paid loads of money whilst being selective with the clients I take on and being flexible with the hours I work. Maybe I might get their someday.
I would say certain aspects are what i’d always had in mind for my perfect starting job. I’m working three days a week until the end of august for several very good reasons. For a professional point of view it gives me a chance to settle in. For more personal reasons i’ve got a backlog of freelance work to get done, also got a ton of other stuff to get done.
Anyway i’ve been at the new job for just over three weeks now, and i’m learning a shockingly large amount. It’s actually the hardest part of the job is having to switch off or ignore the demands of the design student in me since whenever I learn something new I need to know for a project I am easily destracted into learning a lot of (at that moment in time) useless stuff while a clock ticks on the project.
wordpress loyalty?
Apparently today is The Unofficial International WordPress Day and the organisers are asking wordpress users to blog about wordpress. Fair enough, but what to talk about?, well one wordpress blogger decided to discuss “what makes you loyal to wordpress?“, and so that seems like a good question to try and answer.
Well for me my use of wordpress breaks down into two halfs. Firstly there is my own personal use, such as this blog & 24fans.com and such, for these uses I will continue to use WordPress for as long as it remains up to date in features and continues to be a stable base and back end for modification. I thing I hate most about all Content Management Systems is how they all seem determined to scream their name at every site visitor, simply by the way they look and are layed out. WordPress for me offers the best options for stripping that shouting away.I
Then we get on to my other usage of WordPress, when a client asks for a weblog and I set them up with WordPress. Well to be frank I have no ingrained loyalty to WordPress in this situation, that would be unprofessional, I have to set clients up with whatever best meets their needs, budget and timescale. Obviously if a client starts dropping phrases like “whatever you can setup the quickest” then I’m gonna heavily lean towards WordPress because that is what I can set up the quickest, and if WordPress meets their needs while another system meets their needs also, but doesn’t offer anything extra, then it’ll be WordPress again. I guess you could call that loyalty, but i’d simply call it logical.
ten commandments of web design
Things like “Thou Shalt Make Content King” might seem rather obvious, but every Web Designer needs to hear (or read) things like this every once and a while
more than just web
Some design work I do from time to time are online flyers for events to go on sites like Don’t Stay In, Facebook & Myspace. I often do these as unpaid work for charity events. Below is one of the latest.
… making the web less rubbish
I’ll be starting in a few days on a redesign of the Longboard Furniture Company website in preparation for the Ealing Jazz Festival and to show off the companies services of bespoke cabinet making and furniture restoration rather than the product catalogue currently on the website.
new blog
Welcome to my new blog, finally getting it off the 24fans.com domain which I hated using for personal stuff, since it looked rather unprofessional. I’ve got all of uni.24fans.com’s old posts, so it’s simply location and style which has changed.
I’m quite pleased to say that while basic this theme is all most all my own work to match the rest of my personal portfolio site, although it is built on top of the barebones Sandbox theme.
As I said it’s quite basic, and a little cold at the moment, but I hope to build on it further.
twenty one, flowers, uni and liverpool
So I haven’t posted in a while, and now seemed like a good time to post a catch up.
Yesterday was my birthday, I’m 21 now, although I’m not sure how much that changes anything, i’m still younger than some people and older than some other people.
Also yesterday I was finally able to put online my sister’s website (peonyflowers.co.uk) which hopefully does justice to the her amazing skills, and is also hopefully a good example of the kind of website I can put together for small businesses.
I’ve got four weeks left of uni proper, right now isn’t the most fun i’ve had at uni over the last three years, but I can sort of see the finish line now, and I do have a belief that I can cross it, which is something since during some dark times i’ve severely doubted that.
Plans for the rest of the day include uni work between now and 5pm, 5 till 6 relax a bit, 6 till half 7 get some tea, half 7 start heavy breathing, followed promptly by a heart attack at around half 9. Yep it’s another Liverpool champions night, of the sort which usually send my blood pressure soaring.
If I survive i’ll post again, with hope in my heart.
pass uni, get job, overthrow government, be happy
My new msn screen name which has sparked many agreements, I sense a hugely succesful line of t-shirts.
tangents
I should be working, and I am, but every so often the internet throws you head first into a whole lot of material in which you really have to sit down and read/watch/listen to immediately, otherwise it’s impact will have been lost. I don’t expect this to mean anything to anybody, but so it’s in easy reach when I need some amusement ….
also : adogsbreakfastmovie.com