Development Blog 12 – Social Media Campaigns

Over the last few years, we have a seen a significant increase in not only social media users, but social media advertising and marketing. From this apps have been developed to make content creation for social media campaigns even easier and people are able to run them even with just their phones. The task: The …

Development Blog 10 – AI and manipulating Images

What is AI? Artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine with the ability to perform functions normally associated with humans, for example creating images and writing copy can now be done through AI. Although AI can be preferable due to its speed and efficiency, it has been argued that because it is artificial, the work created …

Development Blog 9 – Overview of Advanced Techniques

For this exercise, we were told to create a new Elementor page, and given files to use to create our own parallax. Step 1 Add a single column section and change the colours as shown. Add a section heading called Parallax Exercise. Add another single column section below the first. Use the space scene to …

Development Blog 8 – Spellzone Team Activity

For this task we were asked to look at a site that Chris Newell helped build many years ago: https://www.spellzone.com/. We were asked to analyse the site and its onboarding process, while using Rolfe’s ‘What? So what? Now what?’ (fearlessculture.design, n.d.): Do an analysis of the onboarding and the design of the pre login or …

Development Blog 7 – Responsive Design

This task was based upon responsive web design. By ensuring a webpage is responsive, it means that the webpage is accessible on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Elementor, has a view for each of the devices, so you are able to look and see how the page will look on different devices without having to …

Development Blog 4 – Multi Channel User Experience

For this class we began first by presenting the assessment RP2. Following this we proceeded to the group activity for email marketing. Firstly, we signed up for mailchimp. Mailchimp is a marketing platform that specialises in email marketing, it allows users to send up to 2500 emails for free before having to join the paid …

Development Blog 6 – Using Interactive Elements Within Your Site

Following on from the previous task when we looked at HTML and CSS for a simple web page with a link, we then moved onto using HTML and CSS within Elementor to create interactive elements within Elementor. Task 1: 1) Add the HTML widget into your page (Within the general section) 2) Paste the following …

Development Blog 3 – Website Set Up

For this task we were exploring web servers, control panels, HTML, CSS and scripts. The inital part of the task was done individually. We were tasked by Jason to explore cPanel and create a FTP account and connect using FileZilla. Once this was completed, we went ahead and got into our groups of three. Once …