Itch Needs Scratching
It could not have come at a worse time, my college projects have mounted up – when I thought I was doing some pretty good (and fairly quick) progress on them… why does time go so quickly?! Furthermore I have started investigating the Model-View-Controller methodology (aka MVC) – it has now become that itch, the problem being that I only have a matter of two weeks to get most of my college work finished (deadlines weren’t updated from last year on the college site).
So I’m doing college work, that has odours of MVC in it (but much more messy and impractical) all I want to do is spend a couple of days making an MVC and then putting it to the test on this site – which should be noted is also a “big project” for a real company. Yet that large refactoring will just have to wait until after the deadlines, though should provide a lovely experiment (being that it is just a prototype anyway).
I will have to see how it goes, but its proving to be very exciting for me – learning at quite the rapid rate, though its side effect is having too much information going through my head which wants to be put to use. I will likely post on the other-side of the hectic schedule – I’ll try and get a guide to the basic MVC going in PHP too; keep an eye out.
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I’ve done some minor changes to the site now, including using CSS3 gradients (and MS gradient filters) to hopefully help in reducing bandwidth usage! Even though the impact will really be quite minimal anyway.
I’m also thinking of polishing the style up, making some alterations and releasing it is a WordPress theme for public use; though whether I do it commercially or not is another matter. I also have to finish off my communication form in the footer before this is completed for my personal use. It also dawns on me that Opera (last time I checked) didn’t support gradients or rounded corners, I suspect it won’t look too good in that.
Other projects have been started, some are now really underway – its just a shame so much of it saps from my graphical work, though I’m dabbling wherever I can find the time to do so… I’d love to get a portfolio section started.
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