Student Accommodation in Chester Website

www.studentaccommodationinchester.co.uk

A small information site designed for a client offering student accommodation in Chester, North Wales.

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A Quick Driving Lesson Website

Just a quick website that I've produced for my brother-in-law. He's a driving instructor down in Yeovil, Somerset.

Presenting A STAR Driving Tuition

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New Designers Exhibition

See the full gallery on Posterous

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A Couple of Images from the #MultimediaMMXI Exhibition

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My 'Month On' Update as a Multimedia Graduate

Although it's been a silent month of blogging, in which I'm sure you've all enjoyed the peace and quiet, I've now received my final results for my degree. I'm pleased to say I've passed with a First Class Honours in Multimedia! Yes you can hold the applause as this doesn't guarantee me any job, but just puts me in a better position for one.

So a month on from final deadlines and my 10th episode of my video blog, I've been busy with exhibition and interviews. Our #MultimediaMMXI exhibition went well and I've also had some offers for interviews from that which I'm excited about.

I've also been working on our New Designers exhibition which I've been selected along with another 8 Multimedia students to exhibit our work. The work that I'll be exhibiting is connected to my personal research document on Augmented Reality and Quick Response Codes. If you're interested in what I did through that process you can look at it via this blog under the appropriate PRP tags. The exhibition will be taking place on the 6 - 9 July.

My client project for the Colwyn Bay Hockey Club is now live too. Once the appropriate members and team captains of the club get training on how to use WordPress to it's full potential the site should really take off!

Finally I've had some feedback on my WebGrad site and will be soon adding the ability for users to get the RSS feed that I'm displaying on the site for themselves. This means users can user their own RSS readers rather than having to come to the WebGrad site.

Well that's it for now, but look out for a portfolio update in the coming weeks as I've got more of my work to add to it!

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New #WebGradEngine V2

A week on from the first release of The Web Grad Engine and I'm already rolling out V2.

Presenting http://www.webgrad.co.uk

What's new?

• More Twitter keyword searches integrated into one feed for better results
• Facebook Like button
• A designated Twitter account for your suggestions - @WebGrad
• It's own domain name - webgrad.co.uk
• More results from feeds. No 50 results per feed
• More RSS feeds from other websites included
• A deeper explanation of the project found under 'Info' tab

Hope you like the improvements!

For more updates on the Web Grad Engine follow @WebGrad on Twitter

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#WebGradEngine V2 In The Making

Today has been the release of The Web Grad Engine V1 and I'm already buzzing with ideas for V2 which will be the next update. The reason for V1 being so limited in gathering information is because I wanted to get the ball rolling. Now it's a case of adding to improve usability and scope in the information it provides to the user.

Some notes I wrote down last night for V2 include the following -

Merging different Twitter searches into one feed

Although merging these Twitter feeds will remove their avatars, just provide the user with a link to that particular Tweet, it might provide users with better quality of information. Last night while keeping track of the Twitter feed I noticed a Twitter user tweeting back to those who mentioned they 'need web designer.' This user would then tweet 'Hey, I here you need a web designer.' This would trigger my search to pick his tweet up too resulting in a mass of reply tweets. In merging the three it would break these mass reply tweets up.

Styling & Extras

Maybe some custom colours relating to where the information has come from for the RSS feeds. May be a little difficult as it will all be coming from one feed.

Adding in some more social media connections, for example, a Facebook 'like' button and Twitter stream for updates and developments on the Web Grad Engine.

More columns for more information to be displayed. These columns will have vertical scroll bars to hold more results but not increasing the page length.

Contact form for suggesting improvements, more RSS feeds sources, etc. Also a deeper 'About' page explaining the reason for creation and the face behind the product.

Further Expansion Ideas (V3+)

Although not a key aim of the project yet, I have considered adding in some adverts relating to the subject of web design and job hunting as this could act as a source of income to keep the project going. I have however postponed this part of the project as I want to aggregate quality content, build up visitors, Twitter followers and general website assets then go on to selling ad spaces.

Adding in location based real-time results with Geolocation or post code/city being inputted manually. This would then improve the quality of the results.

For more updates on the Web Grad Engine follow @WebGrad on Twitter

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The Long Awaited Episode 10 is Here! Sit Here, Be Cool - Episode 10

The long awaited Episode 10 is here to introduce The Web Grad Engine!

The Web Grad Engine is an aggregator for Graduate Web Designers jobs through the using the power of Twitter searchers and RSS feeds.

If you're interested in it why not check it out for yourself at http://webgrad.cityandwool.co.uk

For more information on its developments follow it on Twitter - http://twitter.com/webgrad

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Introducing The #WebGradEngine - The Graduate Web Designer's Aggregator

Over the last few days, and as my graduation has got closer, I've wanted to increase my job searching capabilities. What better way to do this than through a single page that updates in real-time!

Using a custom search in Twitter and multiple 'Web Design jobs' RSS feeds combined into one RSS feed, I'm creating some sort of a custom TweekDeck for job hunting.

As I slowly develop it into including more RSS feeds and better custom searches through Twitter I hope that this will be a product that can help any type of Web Designer looking for work.

Being released as Version 1, I know it's not perfect but the information it's gathering is so I wanted to be able to share it as early as possible.

Feel free to add suggestions of RSS Feeds or particular Twitter searches you might use. I am wanting to add in multiple searches like 'need web & designer' being one, 'want, web & designer' being another and 'hire, web & designer' being a third. These are ones I've used in the past and have worked.

I've also considered a Freelance section and a Professional section. Freelance being more small jobs picked up through Twitter, then Professional being more permanent job related.

Well, here it is for you're enjoyment...

The #WebGradEngine found at http://webgrad.cityandwool.co.uk

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Introducing The #WebGradEngine - The Graduate Web Designer's Aggregator

Over the last few days, and as my graduation has got closer, I've wanted to increase my job searching capabilities. What better way to do this than through a single page that updates in real-time!

Using a custom search in Twitter and multiple 'Web Design jobs' RSS feeds combined into one RSS feed, I'm creating some sort of a custom TweekDeck for job hunting.

As I slowly develop it into including more RSS feeds and better custom searches through Twitter I hope that this will be a product that can help any type of Web Designer looking for work.

Being released as Version 1, I know it's not perfect but the information it's gathering is so I wanted to be able to share it as early as possible.

Feel free to add suggestions of RSS Feeds or particular Twitter searches you might use. I am wanting to add in multiple searches like 'need web & designer' being one, 'want, web & designer' being another and 'hire, web & designer' being a third. These are ones I've used in the past and have worked.

I've also considered a Freelance section and a Professional section. Freelance being more small jobs picked up through Twitter, then Professional being more permanent job related.

Well, here it is for you're enjoyment...

The #WebGradEngine found at http://webgrad.cityandwool.co.uk

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