My road through web development has been a long interesting one that morphed from computer science through the DGM department, deep in the UX side of things and finally over to the Web Development. My present education goals are to graduate finally! It’s been a long road. Before that happy…

There is sort of this monstrous battle between Sketch/Invision, Adobe XD and a few other up and coming players. For a while it’s been the Sketch/Invision train leading from afar, however Adobe has ever so slowly been catching up with their own product. I have been super excited about this…

The Glacier National Park website has an interesting parameter that poses some challenges for increasing web performance. The website itself seems to be part of and interlinked system of websites under the umbrella of the entire National Park Service. …

Recently I had the opportunity of working on the beginnings of a project that involved transferring reference information from a set of books into a searchable website. The real kick was when the client revealed her thousands of image assets organised on her desktop in what can only be described…

Learning to create proto-persona It’s obvious that knowing your market is one of the most import aspects in developing any type of product. Personas are a popular and effective way to explore what the people who use your product might be like. Full fledged personas generally require lots of research…

Helpful points I’ve learned over time If there is one truth that I’ve learned it’s that I’m always learning. Alignment is something I feel like I understand until I look back at my old work and realise I had no idea what I’m doing. Hopefully this is proof of what…

Arrays were really complicated for me to learn, these are some things that helped me learn as a noob. Arrays can get overwhelming Arrays are more complex data than just normal variables, because of this it was difficult for me to sort out the nuances of them. …

A quick and dirty redesign of a simple website Everyone knows there is a million and a half small businesses with bad websites, even the word-press stuff that’s out there is mostly garbage. Because of this I wanted to do a quick and dirty redesign of a small bed and…

After being lightly involved in coding for several years, I recently had my first introduction to the the world of Git. After watching tutorials and reading articles I wanted to distill some very simple Git information learned by a complete noob. What you need to have/know already A GitHub account (or similar) A bash style terminal…