Hi folks, just to let you know I'm working on a new project that is based in this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Agile-Development-Rails-Pragmatic-Programmers/dp/1934356549/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1346366995&sr=1-1

Its quite time consuming but well worth a read!!

Completed College Projects

Hi all, just to let you know I have completed two web development projects, one based on XHTML, JavaScript and CSS, all pages were subject to CSS and XHTML validation using the strict model with http://validator.w3.org/  and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ . This was a college project based on the fundamentals of basic web design and overall a very good exercise. It was very time consuming to get elements in the right position and get colours sorted out too. I also had to reformat a lot of the images to a supported size (these were from the manufacturer websites and were used with kind permission - thanks to Fender, Gibson, Gretsch, Martin and Rickenbacker). The attachment is a shot of the welcome page; quality isn't the best I know but you get the idea hopefully.

The second project is an e-commerce based application designed and built using Ruby On Rails, this was a team effort with a fellow student. Rails is designed to build applications from the server side of things (unlike client which is based on XHTML, CSS etc). Here is a screenshot of the homepage:

Hello World!

This is my official first post on my new blog promoting my newly gained web design skills, my background is in the IT support field but the goal is to get into web design and development. I am right in the middle of a Higher Diploma  in Web Technologies covering:

• HTML, 
• XHTML,
• CSS,
• JavaScript, 
• JQuery,
• Ruby on Rails, 
• XML,
• MySQL
• Dreamweaver,
• Rational Rose, 
• Adobe Flash,
• Adobe Flex

As I develop and experiment with different applications I will be posting screenshot of the finished product here. Each project will get a full rundown on the background and technologies used, the problems I encountered and how I got around them