My dedication to self-improvement in web design and development has inspired me to study web at a university, where I hope to incorporate new ideas with my own knowledge in a practical and beneficial way, as well as to add work to a future portfolio.
Over the course of my designing and developing, I have identified several areas in which I struggled and have decided, in order to make my transfer to university easier, to spend the next year focusing and developing my knowledge in those areas by researching and experimenting with new ideas to find a practise that is both practical and compliments my style. Last year I successfully completed a BTEC Extended Diploma in Art and Design (Interactive Media) which greatly helped me develop imagination and creativity. Throughout this course we studied a wide range of design techniques that I would like to build upon, as well as development techniques that could be used specifically for website creation. While working on website design and development I was taught numerous techniques such as compressing images for the web with Adobe Photoshop. This helped me significantly at the time as I was working on an image heavy website and I still continue to compress images to this day. I was also taught how to use Adobe Dreamweaver due to the many features that the program has to offer such as the drag and drop functionality, file management system and easy FTP upload.
Although I enjoyed using the program for the more intricate projects, I still enjoy the challenge and mental stimulation that hand coding provides.
