Just a quick post to let you all know the new purpose for this blog and the tag cloud on the right hand side of the site. I originally set up this website for part of a final year multimedia blogging project whilst studying for my  degree in 2008. However, now that my student days are behind me, rather than letting all of my hard work go to waste, I am now using this space as a virtual portfolio on which to show my Photography, Advertising and Graphic Design work, along with my academic writing and blogging capabilities. Just click on the links above the banner to browse through my my site, where you will find a selection of visual and written work, including examples of photography, advertising, graphic design and two first class graded academic essays, both of which tackle Marketing and Advertising related subjects.You will notice that the ‘blog’ diary is more of a step by step guide which details exactly how I put this site together: a web design guide for beginners, from an absoulte 100% beginner. This was again produced for multimdia to meet the marking criteria, but I have included this on my online portfolio as not only does it hopefully display some of my less formal blogging abilities, some of you budding web designers may find it useful. To search for a particular subject in my blog, simply click on the required word in the rotating tag cloud on the right hand margin. Feel free to have a look around and I hope you find some of what I wrote in my blog helpful…

Whilst writing my essay I found an interesting article/report type thing by a guy called Douglas Gantenbein of Microsoft, in which he discusses the marketing powers of social media and Web 2.0. It may prove useful if you are interested in a career in web based marketing upon graduation. Here is a link which takes you directly to the article:

http://www.microsoft.com/midsizebusiness/web-v2-marketing-for-businesses.mspx

Just a quick post to say that I’ve added one of our advertising campaigns that form part of my Pocket Wellies final project. I produced these so I thought I might as well post them up in my gallery. I’m keen on a career in advertising upon graduation so it makes sense to dsplay some of my advertising capabilities on my site. Feel free to check them out and let mo know what you think.

I also played around with the gallery settings to change the way the gallery looks but none of the different options look as good as the original so I decided to put it back as it was.