Computing was a massive degree aspect, and still plays part in my working life. But gadgets and technology are also key hobbies of mine.
However, I think there's probably more to me than just the geeky stuff; although that stuff is still pretty cool.
There's a huge variety of hobbies such as good sport, great music and amazing nights out!
Fitness, food and festivals are just a few of my other non-nerdy interests, and there's lots more, too.
From my my first C++ project at Nottingham Trent University to my mobile marketing final year dissertation, my time in education provided me with a variety of challanges in the form of assignments.
On the other hand, in my career, real-world problems have been overcome with rational responces. Projects such as Science World 2010 have encouraged business orientated skills such as project analysis to be expanded and built upon.
I'm a computer specialist and IT Professional with a passion for design, development and marketing and a genuine interest for computing and technology.
After A-Levels I moved to Nottingham Trent University to study Software Engineering BSc.
A third year industrial placement in Fisher Scientific's marketing team helped further focus my aspirations.
After completing my final year 'Mobile Marketing' dissertation and graduating from NTU I am now constantly developing my online marketing career.
computer and technology specialist online marketing strategy development website promotion and analysis business information management
Four years of university education Three years of exam revision Two floors of dedicated computer facilities One final degree result
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My WordPress is all styled up!
It began last night, messing around with different templates and eventually fell upon ‘Simplicity’ which is a nice and neat two column template with a similar layout to the rest of my site.
After ‘installing’ (I’m not convinced that’s the correct terminology) WordPress on my host Justhost I downloaded the header.php and style’s css files as well as the index.php page and started to play around.
My background knowledge of CSS and PHP helped a lot, but my main tool was the Web Development Toolbar (WDT) for Firefox. Using this I edited the CSS and could see the real-time changes to the various pages. I did find that some attributes of the CSS a little obscure but this was overcome by trial and error (a process that can be tedious and repetitive if constantly requiring uploads, but seamless and efficient when using WDT.
The header again was a simple procedure, simply deleting the entire current header and replacing it with my own. (NOTE: I also included the content wrapper code from my page to hold the blog and sidebar central).
The entire process took a few hours (about 7-8) to complete, but I’m positive that my next revamp will knock the blog style up in a quarter of this!
Well done WordPress, you continue to amaze me! Now all I need is some content worthy of the cyber-space!
