A year ago today I joined Ph.Creative! Time flies they say...
So what have I done what have I learnt and what about the year ahead?

I’d currently worked for an ICT company and was in sole charge of their website, as well as designing and developing client websites, but one thing stood out when I joined Ph, the quality. 

My role changed from my previous job, no long was I responsible for designing websites; I was now fully focused on web development, coding HTML and CSS. Which is just as well, as the design team at Ph, blew anything I’d ever created right out the water. 

Ph.Creative use their own Content Management System, PhUse, which was new to me. I was thrown in the deep end on my first day and was asked to code up a site from visuals, which I then had to integrate into PhUse to give clients the ability to update their own sites. You have to take into consideration what the client can and can’t edit, and at the same time make it easy for them to do so, by carefully naming Styles for Header Tags, Images, Downloadable Documents and much more. During the process of learning PhUse, I improved my skills in SQL Server, IIS and ASP. I also leant lots of tricks and shortcuts in Photoshop while working with the Designers PSDs.

One of the handiest tools I’ve discovered has to be jQuery. Once jQuery was introduced into Ph websites we began to push barriers, it’s really useful at tweaking CSS and giving sites a little creative edge. 

Learning new skills has made me a much better developer, but I’ve also gained knowledge in the power of Social Networking and Internet Marketing. PhUse’s Marketing Manager is a great tool for clients to collect data from users and create email marketing campaigns.

I would not have learned these new skills so quickly if it wasn’t for the close knit team around me that we have at Ph.Creative. Hopefully over the next 365 days I’ll learn just as much...