http://xandesigns.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:28:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So in my last post I mentioned something about a lot of coursework. Well since then much of it has been completed, aside from the large project which is due in next week. Fingers crossed everything will be fine. Anyway. I handed in a piece of coursework. It was my currency ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2010/03/18/decreasing-workload/ I am currently in the midst of a massive pile of uni work. This is not entirely fun. Most of it has to be in, in a couple weeks. It is big coursework, and some of it doesn't look like it will be finished on time. This is not as bad ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2010/03/04/epic-workload/ Not entirely sure why I left it so long. I'm gonna try and update more often from now on. I am currently so busy with Uni work it is unreal. Working on making a shop, heavy on the JavaScript. Should be cool, though I haven't managed to get very far with ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2010/02/23/ok-so-longtime/ It has been a while since I posted in my blog. Been far too busy with exams and other work. Sad times. Exams. Fun things really aren't they...yeah, right. I've had two already, one writing essays on HCI (Human Computer Interaction) and Web Programming (Mostly about XML, couldn't do the OOP ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/05/18/well-hi-there/ How exciting. It has been a while in the making, but this new site layout is around 99% complete. Little tweaks here and there need to be done and it is finished. =]Any recommendations or improvements are welcome as well as suggestions for my random tagline that I will be ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/04/13/new-site-layout/ This is all about the lovely little Twitter app known as Blu. It's created by an unknown (well I've never heard of them) company called thirteen23. You can download Blu from their site here. Ok. So you're at their website and it says 'Vista Twitter client'. Well if you are on ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/03/15/its-all-about-the-blu-life/ You probably haven't noticed, but over the past few days my site has had a couple of new upgrades and fixes. The most noticeable will be of course, the new fading featured content slider on the homepage and on the services page. Some small other improvements have gone on too, with aligning ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/03/12/some-small-upgrades/ We will be making the smash desktop background featured on my art page. To get started open up Adobe Photoshop Start with your document, I started with 1440x900 pixel size, but you can do any. Fill it with a dark grey. Mine was #0a0a0a. Select a large brush with the hardness set ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/03/11/making-the-smash-desktop-background/ Around this time last year is when i finally decided i should buy myself a domain name and some hosting. I started off with a simple design, and didnt really follow through with it. Despite this i uploaded the site anyway. Since I first uploaded my first website, I have ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/03/07/my-my-havent-we-come-along-way/ Due to recent appearance on Skins, everyone on my course decided it would be rather funny to milk it for as much as they could. It has now been over a week. I have an #alexfromskins twitter account, and a Facebook group entitled 'The Alex From Skins Appreciation Society'. It's all ... http://xandesigns.com/blog/2009/03/07/ive-given-up/