After a browse of my RSS reader this afternoon, I came across this post from net tuts+ and as someone who has recently completed year one of university it was an interesting read. The article discusses the benefits and drawbacks of attending university to learn web development and includes real-life experiences of people who went to university to study computing.
Overall the article is positive about university attendance although not just from the perspective of learning the techniques to become a web designer or developer, but also from other aspects such as the social side and the broadening of horizons that university can bring.
Welcome to the newly re-designed site (or version 3.0 if you prefer!)
The reason for changing the design was that I didn’t like the look of it after a while and also the code was riddled with errors which I was not happy with. This was mainly due to site being built in Summer 2008 when I had a lot less knowledge and skills in comparison to what I have now.
Through a combination of learning at University, reading blog posts and listening to podcasts I feel that my skills have improved considerably over the past few months and that a re-design was a natural progression of these new found skills. The aim of the blog was always to be a kind of personal playground if you like where I could put into practice skills and techniques that I pick up as my learning continues.
As with any new launch, the likelihood is that there will be a few bugs somewhere along the line so if you find any please either leave a comment here or drop me an email.
As a student and relative newcomer to website design and development I am always on the look out for refernce books and materials that can teach me about differing areas and technologies such as XHTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. At the moment I have several books which I consult regularly as a reference point and my Google reader is full of tutorial sites and resources which provide help when I need it.
As I will be starting University in September, I feel that these will also come in handy when it comes to assessment times as well as in any other work that I do. I am keen to learn as much as possible in order at this stage in order to improve my skillset and any recommendations of good books, blogs or sites is certainly appreciated.
