John Knowles - Development Blog

Website minor update and assignments are finished

Post by: John Knowles On 2008-01-10 12:42:19

I have finally finished all of my assignments for semester A leaving me with only 4 more assignments left till I finish my degree. I was awake till half 4 last night tapping away as the keys but at that time of night the material I was producing was just dribble. I decided to get a few hours sleep and set my alarm for 8am. In the morning I finished off the last few words I had left on my 3rd assignment and set the printer going. My final projects prototyping and preparation documentation weighted in at around 100 pages. To show you what 100 pages looks like I took the liberty to take a photo:

prototyping and preparation assignment photo

Does anyone have a stapler?

The wonderful device that saved my life was the new Canon MP180

Canon MP180

Not bad for £30. Also the iPhone doesn't take too bad a photo

So I finally have a little bit of time on my hands apart form having a full e-commerce store to write, a dissertation to research and write also to top that off a few other web jobs. Oh wait theres more University doesn't think a dissertation and showcase project is enough for your 3rd year they get you do do another 4 pointless units. Luckily I'm a pretty fast worker when it comes to web development and will be able to keep on top of everything with a bit of dedication.

You may have started to notice a few small changes within the site recently. I have started adding more content, blogging more. Also over the past few days I have setup a dynamic site map for google now that I have permanent urls for my blog. I might as well help boost my search ranking everyone else is trying to do it. The bonus of having this dynamic site map also means I can now parse it into a usable sitemap for the website. The links can be found in the footer of every page.

I plan to get the portfolio up to date within the next few weeks and also change the format it displays my portfolio work giving each item it's own page with more detail and the possibility of more images. I'm off to York tomorrow for a weekend of beer fueled relaxation before I am back to university and a working routine.