This week I have mostly been........

Subtitle: A week in the life of a web developer/designer.

This week I have mostly been....... working on a fascinating History Dept' project on the rise of Hitler in 1930's Germany. A team of year 13's have been collating info about nasty old Adolf and I'm knocking it into a web page for them. Had fun creating an interactive map of Northern Europe (No, honest, I did...) using the old tried and tested 'Show, Hide Layers' function in Dreamweaver, as well as trawling Wikipedia for copyright free images. It's not quite finished yet but have a sneek preview here

Have also been creating posters/application forms/web pages that advertise another new project, that of getting teams of Year group 'Journalist Developers' together. The basic idea is to allow each team to create a web page for thier year and to cover as wide a range of topics as possible. From form news to game reviews. Film write-up's to CD reviews. Match reports to video clips of the best SK8/BMX tricks. Club info and interform competition results, etc etc etc. A whole load of stuff just about themselves. Anyway...that's the dream.

What else? well.... Presenting a series of talks about the College website & Year 6 info shop to prospective students and thier parents. Really nice to talk to everyone that came, and there all seemed genuinely interested, dare I say fascinated! After all a good proportion of the present content is aimed directly at them. A little bit suprising how few people actually knew we had a web site tho! I actually find that a bit worrying because I'm doing all this stuff but not many people seem to have seen it, let alone know that it existed.

.......A Staff ICT Skills audit!! Yoinks! To help the IT Techies provide some really pertinent IT Training in November we have created an online survey. It's hoped that we can use this to measure overall skill levels as well as target inset. Plus it's paperless, which as you might have read is a becoming a bit of a thing for me. Now I could have indulged in some hyper-nurdery and hand coded a datbase frontend to chuck all the answers into Access, but when you can get hold of a copy of 'My Web Survey' for £11 and let it do all the hard work, then as they are fond of saying round these parts, 'Get on Boy'.

Plus, a whole raft of other bits, pieces, meetings, brainstorms & jolly japes too numerous to mention.

Happy browsing