After working at Snow Valley for just over a month now, having learned vast amounts in such a short time, I thought it was about time I put my new skills to use on my own website.
MStrutt.co.uk is now fully HTML5 compliant taking advantage of all the lovely new features of CSS3 and all the -webkit extras. Soon I'll be adding in HTML5 Microdata and fully SEOptimise the site.
I see this happening many more times in the future as I continue to learn on the cutting edge of the web. Already this is filtering down into the other websites in my portfolio with a redesign of ei8htyei8ht.com in progress, and MSCycleBlog & HelpBuntu in the pipeline.
Posted by Michael Strutt on: at 21:28:56.
Today I start my professional placement at Snow Valley.
I will be working there for 12 months as a User Experience (UX) Developer. While there I will be working as part of a team on the cutting edge of the web, doing both inventive design and front-end development.
Posted by Michael Strutt on: at 08:32:15.
After being victorious in the first round, we took on-board our feedback, worked hard and we've done it again.
This time joint winners of the "Detica Team Project Prize for second year computing students May 2011".
The brief for the second part was to fully create the web-system that we had designed in the first part. Doing all of the server side scripting, the database management, the front-end development, the version control, and the project management entirely by ourselves.
The team worked very well together and did an incredible job against the stiff competition, coming joint first in what our tutors were calling the best overall results in years.
Long may it continue
Posted by Michael Strutt on: at 19:48:27.
I am proud to announce that ei8htyei8ht.com is now live.
After a lot of hard work and keeping in close contact with the client we have a fully live website. Content will be coming up as available, but all the framework is in place.
Posted by Michael Strutt on: at 22:16:00.
Good news. As part of a team of 6 we won the "Accenture Team Project Prize for second year computing students December 2010". The months of hard work paid off and to the victors the spoils: £100 each.
The project was to redesign the system for submitting timetable requests at Loughborough University. We had to come up with an improvement for the current spreadsheet system, and then design and build a prototype of a fully interactive Website to replace the spreadsheet. To support this we had to come up with three detailed reports including Database diagrams and Use Case diagrams. Within the team my main roles were as Primary Web Developer and secondary Web Designer.
That's all for now, more updates to come soon no doubt.
Posted by Michael Strutt on: at 00:58:00.