Tuesday, 18 November 2008

Why am I at Uclan?

Why, after so many years in marketing communications do I find myself back in the classroom? I sometimes wonder when I am sitting in the rush hour traffic into Preston and grappling with the unfamiliar PC I have to work on - among other far more pc literate students. However the reason is this - to get a broader view of web development other than from inside a design studio, be able to talk teccie to my clients with greater authority and less reliance on picking other people's brains (That's the theory anyway).

We have for many years created successful and good looking websites for our clients - and are continuing to do so. We have never been guity of indulging ourselves in the design and look of a site at the expense of good search engine optimisation and accessibility. In fact we may have gone too far the other way and limited our designs too much to accommodate our web developers' wishes. Who knows? - hopefully I will soon! Now I am catching up on the history and how things have developed over the last 10 years to get us to where we are now - and this includes getting to grips with the whole html / css bit. I'm pleased to find things have simplified a lot and a lot of the frustrations have been eliminated.

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