Work

Taking on the Daily CSS Images challenge

by Mary Somerville
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A few weeks ago I signed up to the Daily CSS Images challenge to give myself some motivation to learn more CSS. It’s been really good fun so far and I’ve created some I’m really proud of and learned some new techniques along the way. It’s been great fun thinking about how images can be created […]

Fun

A trip round Scotland for my 30th

by Mary Somerville
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I’ve always wanted to hire a VW camper van so for my 30th birthday that’s what I did. We hired at 4 berth camper van from RockinVans and headed north towards Inverness. Having lived in Scotland most of my life, I’ve been to a lot of it but very rarely have I been above Inverness. […]

Web Development

Setting up my own server

by Mary Somerville
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So one thing I get asked to do at work is interact with our servers using a command line. Now, even though I’ve been building website for years, I have never interacted with a server using a command line before. I’ve only ever used control panel’s. At work, we don’t seem to install them, and […]

Web Development

Why Codecademy is a great starting point

by Mary Somerville

Codecademy offers a really wide range of language tutorials. If you have never coded with a particular language then doing the tutorial is a great way to get started. All the tutorials allow you to practise in browser following simple exercises. Each one builds on the previous adding more knowledge bit by bit. You can sign […]

Web Development

Learning SCSS

by Mary Somerville
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When we first started using Sass in projects at work, the only thing I though was my god it’s a faff to set it all up. You need to install a whole bunch of software, have a command line program open all the time, write a gulp file. It took about 2 hours to get […]

Fun

New year in Reykjavik Iceland

by Mary Somerville

Having spent Christmas in Scotland, we decided to go see what a New Year was like in Reykjavik. My boyfriend Euan had told me how crazy Icelander’s go at new year over fireworks but I did not really expect it to be so crazy. It was one of the most amazing sites I’ve seen. We […]

Web Development

How I code responsive

by Mary Somerville
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We have this discussion a lot at work. Min width or max width, or a bit of both. Its a 50/50 split and really its just up to the developer and what they prefer. Personally I like min-width. I prefer to code a site for mobile and add min-width media queries at breakpoints for devices, […]

Fun

Boston, New York holiday 2016

by Mary Somerville

Anywhere where the sun comes out every day during the summer I’m going to love obviously living in Scotland but Boston was just an amazing city. So laid back! I’d been once before when I travelled round America back in 2007 but I didn’t really remember it too well. We were staying in the North […]

Web Development

Coding css triangles

by Mary Somerville
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When Im coding a website there is usually at least 1 triangle in the design. From drop down arrows on menus/select boxes to list item styles, and using background images is fine, but if you need to changes them then it can be a little time consuming. So I have started doing them with CSS […]