I'm a keen user of Jekyll for my web design and personal blog, but one of the short falls is not being able to easily install a contact form of your design and control. Here I build talk about what I learned putting a google form on a jekyll website.
At some point you have to figure out how to combine 3D printed pieces. Although just a box with a lid, I was able to learn how to make magnets part of my 3D models going forward.
Building on my pico web server, it's time to fix the flaw of images not working so fully fledged webpages can be shown. This also fills in a gap from the official Raspberry Pi tutorial.
3d modelling can feel like a daunting ask, especially when you see some of the amzing designs online. But it doesn't have to be. Here's how I made a case for a pi zero and add on HAT.
I can't believe it's been two years with my Prusa mini. An amazing introduciton into 3d printing it's included plenty of ups and a few downs. Images, learns and fun reflections.
You're never satisfied with you own site, yet it's the one always down the bottom of the list to fix. Well I've finally put the effort in to refresh this site.
Still in high demand and not the easiest to get hold of, the Pico W is a fantastic microcontroller from the great folks at Raspberry Pi. Here's my adventures of setting up my first webserver and my plans.
Since the age of 10, I loved playing football manager. This year, inspired by popular youtuber Work the Space, I've started a tier 10 save with Deportivo Galicia London, and reimagined their club logo.
York City Rowing Club is an active, thriving club with around 300 members based in the centre of York on the Ouse. This project took away their rarely updated drupal site and gave them a responsive and modern website contributed to by many parts of the club.
I had a lot of fun designing this small commission for a poster for a young child's bedroom. A bright, playful design which went down a storm.
Blake's Kitchen is a new business venture from a young couple hoping to transform a village shop into a thriving heart of the community, offering delicious freshly made produce on site every day. This details what I made for them, website, vouchers, posters, business cards
Collections in jekyll, super powerful and can be used in a multitude of ways. Here's how I used them in building my personal site.
Nintendo gamers have been up in arms about EA's comments it's not worth bringing games to the switch because consumers play their games on other platforms. While people have focussed on disappointment a large firm like EA have done this, I think we should be focussing on what EA are missing out on.
As a keen rower in York, our river level can vary dramatically. Therefore I've developed a plugin which pulls the river level from the environment agency and gives the club information on the river level's impact on whether they can row. This is a walkthrough of how this was done step by step and links to see it in action and the end result.
Converting numbers into words should be simple right? Especially with something as well supported as Jekyll. Well what looked like a simple feature needed some extra brain power than first thought. But I got there in the end.
Here's the first of many showcases, where I'll post the smaller one off or regular jobs done for clients where it maybe doesn't amount to a full project. Here is a logo design done for a gaming company, D-Infinity.
Each time Blake's Kitchen ask for some additional artwork or piece for their website, I'm Excited by the possibilities. They're a great company which allow me to try something new, which I think will work for their business. This time it's been table top posters for their events.
Clifton Alliance Cricket Club was born out of the merger, in 1974, of Alliance Cricket Club and Clifton Hospital Cricket Club. This details the website created for them after they lost their domain and website, needing to start anew.
Ergcalc was born out of frustration. Being a keen rower scores and numbers are ever important. You can't remember them all so need a calculator. This my development and design, using a responsive website, flat design inspired logo and angular framework to create an online rowing calculator.
The Homemade Cake Kitchen is a sole trader cake baking business in Norfolk. It's run from their home with cakes made to order. Their business is born out of passion for baking delicious cakes and cupcakes. For this business I made business cards, logo and website.