Giles Collins from Mullion School:
I chose to do my work experience at Gendall Design because it’s
the sort of thing that interests me and (without sounding like a stereotypical
15 year old nerd) I will happily do anything that involves a computer. The type
of work that I was doing, web designing using Photoshop and HTML/CSS/JS, really
intrigued me; and I think now that I have learned the basic skills it is
definitely going to be something I continue to research and work on. My mind
had previously been set on becoming a games designer and. although I'm still
pretty certain I want to do that, this experience here has shown me how
interesting web design is and I'm now considering taking a course to develop my
skills and maybe, eventually, find a job at a great place like Gendall; (the
game development still comes first though, sorry).
I had expected to be working independently and I had figured that
everyone I was going to be working with would be super strict and pushy but the
people that work at Gendall were all amazing and cool and really kind. I think
it was this that made my time here go by so quick, they always helped me
whenever I asked.
On the job I learned about how HTML, CSS, and JS work, I have
learned all the basics; adding headers and paragraphs to a webpage using HTML
and styling it all using CSS, using unordered and ordered lists, using classes
and ids, and presenting it all by orienting and swapping properties of entities. I can also manipulate
a webpage using inspect element and make it say or do what I want it to (with a
little trial and error) and change pictures, text and colours. My main
assignment was to create an iPhone application for a big retailer and present
it in a responsive website, for the iPhone app itself I used a template and Photoshop
to edit the assets and change things to make it suitable for the client, I
added the transitions and animations for this using Marvel Prototypes and put the embedded
the app prototypes into the website I created using the embed option on the
Marvel website.
So in conclusion I feel I've learned loads of useful skills that
would be extremely helpful in my future if I pursue a career in web design, and
I will take any opportunity to come back and see these amazing people, thanks
for having me, I love you guys!
