The last 7 days

I have been playing around a bit with the Internet Authoring testsite that Ruairi sent us and can see from this the benefits of using style sheets. The classes and ids topic that we touched on last Wednesday reminded me of objects/classes from C++ programming for my degree. I suppose the ideas behind both are quite similar.
Here are some sites that have useful web design tutorials:

http://www.htmldog.com/ http://www.expertrating.com/courseware/XHTMLCourse/XHTML-Introduction-1.asphttp://www.w3schools.com/

I found the Visual Communication Assignments (Roadsign & Typography) very enjoyable. I started by sketching a few ideas I had for each option by hand. Once I was happy with two designs for each it was time to open Illustrator. As I had never used this application before I was a bit worried at how I would transfer my ideas to screen. However once I got going I found it to be a very intuitive program and in fact was inspired even more by some of the effects/functions available. I also found some great Illustrator online tutorials that you should check out:
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/
Here is one of my Roadsigns:

Some tunes

If you like you can check out some of my tracks here:
www.myspace.com/mistertickle

My First Blog

Hello all !

As you can see by the title, this is my first ever blog. I have recently started an MSc Course in Applied Digital Media. This course is being held in Griffith College Dublin. So far I am finding it to be very enjoyable and interesting. As I have never studied at night before I initially found it a challenge to adjust to the schedule but am settling in just fine now. It helps at lot that I work quite close to the college. This definitely eases the burden of commuting.

I study mainly at the weekend and play basketball on Tuesday evenings. It has been an average start to the season with us winning 2 of 4 games thus far in the league. Also we are through to the 3rd round of cup. My other interests include travelling, music production, mountain biking, DJ'ing, attending music/comedy gigs, reading, piano/keyboard, bass guitar.

This weekend I plan on finishing off my Visual Communication assignments. I missed this week’s lab with sickness (hope I didn’t miss too much!!). Also I will be continuing my study on the Research Methods assignment.