I worked on the HTML and CSS for Clearleft’s dConstruct 2009 website, using microformats to mark up the schedules and locations.

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Today, the holding page for scrunchup.com was launched.  Everyone involved in the project has been stunned by the overwhelming response it has had.  An hour after it was published, we’d had 100 subscribers to the mailing list.

So what’s this all about?

It’s not easy for young people starting out in the web design/development industry.  There seems to be the assumption that teenage-webbie-wannabies are only interested in making a quick buck.  Many don’t attend conferences or meetups, and there are few courses that use up-to-date material.

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St Albans Girls school is my secondary school. While I was studying there, I wrote to them asking whether they would consider a redesign of their website, which they agreed to. The old website was ‘not fit for purpose’ as one parent noted on the current website questionnaire feedback form which was sent to all parents. I started this project in October 2007, and it launched in Spring 2008.
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A few months ago, I was asked by the head of the Spanish department at my school whether I could make a preloader for some Flash audio lessons he’d made. I guess word must have got round the staff room that I knew a bit about the software! He explained that he ran a website called Proidiomas teaching people who speak Spanish how to speak English. After sending him the functioning preloader, he asked me to do some other projects including making a Flash game and redesigning his website. So here’s how it went…

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Had a nice surprise this week. A friend who had asked me to look/play about with a menu she’d made for her dad’s Thai takeaway contacted me to say the logo I’d done for it was being used as their shop sign! I’ve designed so much stuff that’s only seen on computers that when it does get made into something that’s bigger than me… very cool!

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This website has been up and running for over a year. However, I was so ashamed of the last design that I didn’t tell anyone about it. And what’s the point in having a website that you don’t want anyone to see?

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