evolution of website design

i've just been sent an interesting research report from my chum at cardiff uni. its a study into the evolution of website design, looking at trends and adherence to various web standards. its a pretty heavy read, but for those of you interested in the web side of things, it highlights some really useful points for website development

read it as a pdf

checking in

well once again, its been a really busy week since i last posted - it's been non stop from one project to another...

had a couple of lectures with debbie and wendy yesterday, preparing us for the personal project: looking at research methods and report writing techniques; fairly useful stuff. we've also had another literature review set *stares blankly*

following on from the production processes brief, lou and steve went to visit the bbc wales online education department in llandaff on friday, and all of team:win went up to the pop factory the following monday. we got a tonne of notes, paperwork and concepts for differing production processes - which only left the problem of turning it all into a presentation

we spent most of tuesday in uni sorting our research out, check out our mindmap:

we got into uni about nine on wednesday to add the final touches to our powerpoint, and get all our notes sorted. then came the first presentation. damn, it was good. we got on with ours, which we somehow dragged out for twenty minutes. what a relief it's out of the way

the brief and presentation can be downloaded from the projects dropmenu in the sidebar


it was the pop factory music awards last weekend, and i spent the thursday, friday and saturday up in porth helping to finalise things for the ceremony

thursday i was working on the awards website, sorting out the poll results, and basically getting it ready for the weekend. tpf has been running a feeder meet'n'greet competition over the last few weeks, soi went down to the CIA in the afternoon to photograph the competition winners with the band, and managed to blag a photopass for the show - very chuffed, it was the first time i've got to shoot in the CIA; check out the photos

saturday and sunday were much more hands-on, i was arranging their loft room for the press area, which was great - i got to bang nails and put up fairy lights

cherie had asked me to do photos during the evening - which was pretty cool - i was one of two photographers allowed in, you can check out the final pix on flickr. the aftershow party involved lots of beautiful people and free alcohol. damn

this week, i've been fiddling with the awards site now that the event is over, and setting it up so it can be left until next year when it'll get updated. i had some difficulties setting up a gallery, so in the end i had to make it manually out of (bad) html and tables :(

only a week til we're done for christmas now - can't wait