All about me!

Hello there, my name is Jo, I am a thirty something human being and I love learning how to code and design stuff for the web!

Around five years ago now I began my little journey into web design and have been doing part time courses and projects in my spare time.

After finding it quite difficult to find a simple starting point to begin learning web design, I decided the perfect first project for me would be to create something to fill this gap. My site "simpleeggdesign.com" has helped me to implement my newly found skills whilst breaking down the information I have gathered and relaying it in the simplest way possible to try and help anyone looking to start out in web design.

As well as my love of learning and sharing my knowlege I am a real creative at heart and a lover of all things design. My new found passion in life therefore really has to be CSS!

I will be adding additonal information to my site, updting my skills, blogging and tweeting as I go along, so come back for another visit in the future and dont be afraid to give me a follow. Thanks for visiting and I hope to see you again soon!

Courses i've done and stuff iv'e learned!

Web development level 4 HE (First year degree module in computing solutions) - Hands on project based assignment where I finally got to grips with the creation of a web project from initiation to completion. From being given a client brief it was up to me to research,plan,design,test and implement a fully functioning website. The course touched more on the creative aspect of web authorship but also included subejects such as usability, code validation and the use of free online resoures i.e. twitter bootstrap etc.

Web design level 3 - Introduction to the daddy of all WYSIWYG's Dreamweaver,the implementation of more interactive elements to web pages with JavaScript, Java Applets, Interactive forms and also using downloadable web development tools

Web design level 2 - This was a ten week evening course at a local college that taught the basics of web design and how to build a website from scratch. It taught basic HTML coding including page creation, tags, links, inserting images and page layouts using tables. It also taught the basics of inplementing design and layouts using CSS, The use of Frontpage WYSIWYG and how to upload to a server using an FTP.

Build a website in a day - This was a day course at an adult learning centre that taught the absolute basics of web design. It taught basic HTML and HTML tags, inserting images and google maps links, The use of a free WYSIWIG called Kompozer, and how to upload pages to a server with a FTP