Yikes, it’s been a while since my last blog. That is mainly due to my being unbelievably busy with NEIS work, website building (3 websites, mind you) and working at Woolworths on the weekends.
Site Flight has come in leaps and bounds since my last blog post, but I also spent a lot of time working on a website I don’t think I’ve mentioned here. It’s called the Illawarra Directory, and it’s something of a marketing gimmick that doubles as a useful free tool. Everybody wins! Except, perhaps, my competitors. It will be a business directory. I have a development area with the site as it is, but it’s currently password protected so you won’t be able to view it at the moment.
So anyway, if you want to see how Site Flight is coming along, just click here. So far I’ve created a number of pages, all of which I am pretty proud of. It’s absolutely the most aesthetically pleasing site I’ve ever made, and also the least reliant on tables. I don’t fully understand what’s so terrible about table-based design (I listen to the arguments against them, but it still doesn’t click), but it’s admonished by a lot of website designers, so what the hey. Gotta keep with the current standards and all that.
As for NEIS, phew! For a two-days-a-week course, it’s incredibly hectic. The problems lie in what we have to do when we’re not there.
Oh, and it doesn’t help that on Tuesday next week we’re each meant to spend 10 minutes in front of the class… doing something. What we do is apparently up to us. WHAT THE…?! How am I supposed to think of something? Seriously, that’s lame. Why can’t we be given SOMETHING to work off. Free reign is great, but for this sort of thing? Gah!
1) a ten minute rave / rant about having to do 10 minutes in front of class…
2) a presentation on twitter / friendfeed / identi.ca &tc
3) a presentation about one of your sites
4) a presentation about one of your projects
I ended up talking about things a person should consider when setting up a website. Domain names, hosting, html files, css, databases, scripting languages, that kind of thing.
Also, I completely winged it, having thought up the topic a few minutes beforehand. I’m quite proud of myself, despite my uncontrolled quivering during those 10 minutes.
I guess Woolworths in Australia is a different company to what it is here in the UK? It went bust in the UK 2 months ago and all the shops shut at the start of January. Kind of shocking to see all those big, empty shops and a company going from thousands of shops to dead in a month, but most of them had hardly any customers because of dunderhead management. The name’s now being used for a mail order business and one shop was resurrected as Wellworths.
Yeah, I heard about that. It’s sad, because I used to get Pick’n'Mix there when I was on my working holiday.
But it is a different company to Woolworths in Australia. Woolies is the Australian version of Tesco.