I first heard about Austin Kleon’s book, Show Your Work on Ali Abdaal’s YouTube channel. After a good review I decided to purchase my own copy, and here’s why you should too. From the author of Steal like an artist, this book is for anyone that considers themselves a creative, a business owner or with …
Being a web developer for approximately seven years has meant that I have some experience in managing technical projects to some degree. This includes working with clients of various sizes: big, small, startups and side hustles. Including my own side-hustle business too. What I learnt fairly quickly when dealing with clients on a more face-to-face …
I have a thing for listening to self-development books on Audible. I find that I am more engaged and I digest the information faster when reading; even though I still love to read. The Practicing Mind was a joy to listen to. At a runtime of 3 hours and 51 minutes, the writer manages to …
This blog is here to document my productivity journey. As well as giving people insights into how they can improve their productivity and wellbeing. I was a programmer for approximately nine years, developing websites and web-based systems. I studied at The Unversity of Central Lancashire doing Multimedia Development. At the beginning of my career, I …
So SASS is something that I have been aware of for a while now, but it is only recently that I have started to properly use it. This might seem a bit confusing, or perhaps embarrassing, but it is quite common within the tech world to ‘put off’ using new technology. I have been to …
This will be blog post #1 of a new series where I will showcase a new project that I have created either from a tutorial or a work project. To create a web app that shows the weather I used HTML, JavaScript and Bootstrap. I used JavaScript to connect a weather API, and AJAX to …
Improving my knowledge and skillset is something that I love to do and I felt that learning learning Laravel for PHP was something that I needed to learn. But what is Laravel? And should you start learning Laravel for PHP? If you are someone like myself that has come from an ASP.Net(dot net) background then …
A question that I have seen recently is, do I need to memorise all HTML and CSS tags to become a web developer? Whilst it is important to know the basic layout structure using HTML, knowing every single element is not entirely possible. Plus seeing as HTML standards are ever-changing, what you know might be …
A question that I recently came across recently was about how to make a clickable image link in HTML. A clickable image can be a fun and unique way of linking a user to another page, instead of using a text-link. The process is to create an anchor tag, whichever you prefer it to by. …
What do you do when you have your website created? Do you know which platform to host with? Do know how to buy a domain? Purchasing and assigning a domain to your website is not overly difficult, but if it is your first time, it can be a bit overwhelming. What is a web domain? …
