Friday, June 27, 2014

Adventures in Work Experience

Matrix has been a real seat of learning this week.  Our new programmer Jamie is learning at an impressive rate, and Andrew our apprentice is approaching the completion of his qualifications ahead of schedule.

This week we were joined by Luke who was on his work experience placement from Christ the King College.  He has had a busy week, and learned lots.

We started out with the goal of Luke building a website.  He is very interested in the Isle of Wight Festival, and he came up with the idea of building a website for the iconic 1970 festival.

Day 1 Luke spent sketching design ideas and wireframing the site
Day 2 was spent putting the designs together in Photoshop
Day 3 Luke spent the morning working his way through some HTML tutorials, and then was straight into the build
Day 4 was filled with lots of building
Day 5 should have been a stroll in the park just tidying up and testing, but we gave him some other work to do to help out!

You can check out the 1970 Festival website as built by Luke at http://www.matrixcreate.com/1970/