It’s starting to seem like I’m writing here on a regular basis now :O what on earth could be coming over me?
Anyway, more to the point. First of all I’ve made the changes, although there are still a few more to go before the spring cleaning of the site is complete. I’ve changed the background of the site (the ornate look) for a more detailed design. I hope that people will agree that it looks much better than before. Also to compliment this, I’ve decided to use a header replacement system to use fonts for my headings which I think make the site look much more slick than before. The other thing I’ve done is changed the featured project on the main page to a bunch of equally sized screenshots of my latest designs which lead to their respective portfolio page (only one of them though at the moment…will work more on that after university is finished). I think it’s looking like it’s improved quite a bit from just a few changes and hasn’t had to be completely redesigned which is a big bonus.
Now this is more important news, especially for my career. In the final year of my university course, in each semester we get a client that wants something making for them and they give a prize at the end of the semester to the one that they choose. In this semester, it was the engineering company Malthouse Engineering that wanted a complete overhaul of their website done. As my project is done now, you can see the results in my portfolio.
Anyway, a long story short, yesterday they came into the class to have a final look at the designs that people in my class had done. As they came over to look at mine, I was feeling quite nervous but I think that I presented my design quite well and they left me with some really positive comments which I was happy about.
After they had seen everyone’s designs, they then retreated to the corridor to discuss which design they were going to choose for their company. They came back in and it was all quite tense, I think I was actually shaking from the excitement of it all. When they uttered the words “the winner is Robin”, I didn’t quite know how to react. I went up to the front of the class feeling more nervous than I have in my entire life, however it was also one of the best feelings I had experienced as I had never won anything like this before, not to mention that this module which is my only web based one this semester was the one that I wanted to do best in and it seems to have paid off. The prize they gave was £300 which in itself was a brilliant thing for the end of university for me.
Afterwards, people that hadn’t gotten to see my site came over to have a look and see, I got some really nice comments from people and was thoroughly pleased about the whole thing. One comment that stuck out for me and actually made me feel quite nice was someone saying to me that I’d be going places, that really meant a lot to me.
I think it’s worth mentioning that there were some really good designs that people had made in the class and I’m sure it was a really difficult decision for Malthouse to make, but they chose my website design out of all of the really great designs in the class and that just makes me feel extra special.
Let’s hope this is not only the highlight of my university life but the start of a good career too.
