Tuesday, 24 May 2011

The work cycle and more

Well its been another month since the last time I posted here so its about time I updated on recent projects.  The most substantial project since my last post is The Work Cycle build.  This is another personal project for Pixillion related to peoples relationships with bikes in the work place (the rest of the team are a bit bike fanatical here so it makes sense :P). It is also partly a collaboration with another student (Emma - Graphic Designer - Weston College) who came for a couple of weeks work experience, so its kind of like the work experience project really ;). The build this time is html based with a lot of javascript/jquery to make the pages dynamic and engaging to users.  The aim of the project is hopefully to connect with other digital companies via their 'Work Cycles' and hopefully also to get an award or two.  This has made this build in particular quite important to me; as to make the possibility of an award achieveable my work has to be high quality as well as the design and content.  I have therefore taken the attitude with this more than any of my other builds that I should make it as multi-functionable as possible and so have ensured functionality is still consistent with noscript, mobile, and IE (obviously) as best I can.  This build has also enabled me to go back to learning javascript and particularly Jquery which has been a good extension of my skills.  As I have been building this under my own steam I get the feeling that the layout and structure of the JS could probably be neater and faster, but its not too bad as it is and having effective functionality is my number one priority.  I've really enjoyed working on this one, its been an interesting challenge and its not quite over yet.  To see the project for yourself visit : http://www.theworkcycle.com/
Apart from the Work Cycle I have also dipped in and out of other projects that have needed tweaks or adjustments as per usual but the Work Cycle has been my main focus.  I've even managed to relinquish the Helastel phones (although its practically been that way anyway) as Helastel are getting a new member who is going to be handling them from now own :).  I much prefer Pixillion phones, they're much quieter :P.

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