Things are looking up

 

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After last week, I spoke to my lecturer about my issues that I expressed, and it kind of eased my feelings a little. However, I am still not 100% yet. It seems pointless to quit now, so I will be completing the year at least and then see what happens from there.

On the other hand, I am finally getting some experience with coding, which I am really happy about. I have started to pick up some work for MMU’s community engagement group, Web Angels. The first task that I did was collating event information and updating the page using HTML, which I really enjoyed doing. So I am looking forward to getting someone more projects handed my way.

For one of my Media Making assignments, I need to take some landscape photographs, so I went for a walk around Castlefield and took some pictures along the canal. Even with it raining, I was able to get some good pictures. I was also lucky enough to get my object picture as well, meaning I can spend more time using the Photoshop facilities to enhance the pictures. The only problem I have is that I have the difficult job of trying to select which pieces I want to use within my assignment.

As for the rest of the assignments…well they are just plodding along.

Portfolio | MMU Website

To get some experience in coding, I am doing some work for MMU’s Web Angels. Before I start getting involved with the community projects, I picked up a small task to update a web page on the MMU’s own website.

It mainly involved locating information from a number of sites, and inputting it within a pre-existing web page.

As students are not allowed to update the website personally, the work I had done was then passed to the person responsible to update.

Although, there was nothing wrong with the coding that I had done, a couple of changes were made to bring it inline to “house rules”.  Below is a view of what the page looked like prior to the changes.

The page I created was W3C validated.

MMU Website

Coding used: HTML