Firstly before I get started with the main part of this blog entry, I want to apologise for my infrequent blog updating as of late. I’ve now realised that I need to make these weekly updates on at least Wednesday so that any thoughts or revelations I have had during the week are still fresh in my mind and I can put them across effectively. Also from now on I’m going to try and make my blog entries a lot more engaging to read, as I feel my past posts were possibly lacking somewhat in that department.
Speaking of revelations, I have gone from thinking “I don’t really understand this CSS” to “Ahhh this is starting to make sense now”. I thought we had a really productive session with John last week and I think I am making some fair sized steps towards being able to actually make a page layout using only CSS. The turning point was when we were asking John about what exactly DIVS are; I feel not knowing that had made me just not understand much up to that point. I understood about selecting the different attributes for things on the style sheet, but I didn’t understand why they affected certain things on the website.
It’s not just CSS that I’ve been productive with this week; I’ve got on well with Steve’s Culture Vulture assignment this week and enjoyed doing it in the process. Firstly for this assignment I have learnt a new skill. I’ve realised that before I get started on an essay, or any written task I find it really beneficial to work on an essay plan in my sketch book. With the essay about 20th century design icons (which I did on the Nintendo Game Boy) I feel this is the first time I have successfully used such a method, and as a result I think my essay was a lot better structured than any I have done in the past.
The main part I have enjoyed about that assignment though was getting to finally work on something graphic for the first time this year after all the academic tasks in the ‘TheBiz’ assignment. I especially enjoyed getting to use PhotoShop again for adapting my design to fit the Adidas Hi-top shoe. I think I enjoy these sort of tasks is because I feel I am skilled at them, I am happy with the way my final shoe design turned out.
One more thing to add, I want a bigger desk at home, there’s just not enough room on this one!
Thanks for reading,
Dave
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