Website

I found the workshop really interesting however I found myself having to play catch up as most people were carrying on from last years workshop which I did not attend as I wasn’t a student yet. I picked the coding up reasonably quickly however it is a lot to remember and had to refer back to notes etc when developing the site.

My first design was quite chaotic and full of colour, however I didn’t think it served to showcase the content very well so I made this much simpler black and white redesign. I created a custom button to for my CV link and also played around with positioning as a percentage rather than a fixed position, meaning images would move left or right depending on the screen sizes, I also put all information as a single column as when playing around with layouts previously, I would find that elements would begin to overlap and cover each other at different screen sizes and resolutions.

When researching ideas for the website, I found plenty of designs that I really liked, however my extremely basic understanding of coding meant that I did not have the skills to recreate these sites, this is another reason why I kept it simple as simple done reasonably well is much better than complicated done badly.

I think with more time I would really enjoy coding, it really is a complex skill and demands a good amount of practice. Perhaps it is something to work towards in the future. I would certainly like to continue improving my page and working towards some of the examples I looked at when putting the page together.

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