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During my studies, I have had to create many different styles of websites. Below are short blurbs about each project I have made during my web education.

First Year

HNC Digital Design. This was at City of Glasgow College and was an introduction to web technologies, user experience design and object-oriented programming.

The Black Keys

My first full web product was to be created for a band. I chose The Black Keys because I was listening to them a lot at the time and thought they had a really good colour scheme in their latest release.

Music Online

The music-based websites kept up this year and we were asked to create a website with a working backend database. This site allows users to search through a database to get an album along with its information to display.

Calorie Counter

The Calorie Counter was a jQuery Mobile app that allowed users to search for food and drink items and find out nutritional information about them. The user could then add this item to a list that would count the calories they had consumed that day.

Second Year

HND Digital Design and Development. My second year at City of Glasgow College delved more into web technologies, human-computer interfaces and finished with a self-guided, live client graded unit.

Human-Computer Interface

My HCI studies were centred around a project for creating a website that would have many different types of users. The challenge here was to take three different user profiles, create scenarios for these characters and then build a website that would suit their needs. The website was a letting agency that was to be used for both tenants and landlords.

Design & Development - Building Blocks

The Building Blocks website was to be aimed at preschool children. This site had a few minigames involved, such as a card game, a quiz and a jigsaw. This was all created using jquery.

Graded Unit - Shilling Brewing Co

This was my first taste at working with a live client. The Shilling Brewing Company, operating out of West George Street, Glasgow, gave me access to photographs and other resources to build them an interactive website. As part of my Grade Unit, I had to have weekly meetings with the clients and my lecture to ensure everything was developing along to the projected timeline.

Third Year

Web Design and Development. I moved my studies to Edinburgh Napier University to further my education into advance web technologies, digital storytelling and user centred organisation systems.

Tricktionary

This web product was my first introduction to Python's microframework Flask. This really helped me to create dynamic websites with less code repetition.

Edinburgh Napier CRM

A group project in which five students had to design a web portal for the Napier University staff to allow potential Graduate Apprentice applicants to apply online.

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Instaslam

A Flask clone of instagram that worked with SQLite3 in the back. Instaslam was a RESTful webapp that taught me a lot about how the client and server communicate with each other. This used UploadCare to store and edit images on the fly.

Fourth Year

Hons Web Design and Development. The final year of study at Edinburgh Napier University.

Chilli Plant Stats

Can a chilli plant tweet? Yes, it can! Through the use of an Arduino MKR1000. This group project saw us link the plant up to twitter through ThingSpeak, Temboo and our very own dashboard to give this plant life.

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Honours Project: Crammer

I chose to do my Honours Project on social media platforms, social capital and social comparisons then developed a website that would encourage users to cherish the relationships they share with each other. This was done by limiting the number of connections one user could have as well as only allowing users to appear anonymous, that way everyone is on a level pegging.

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