Since leaving college with the highest award for my Multimedia course, my creative side has given way to my more proficient technical one. Gone were the days spent hunched over sketchbooks and snappily-taken photographs, designing for print and/or web; it has been the eye for detail, thinking in code and conundrums for Computer Science at university.

It’s balancing out now, though. I want to get all my work out in to the big wide world; what better place to do so than the Internet?

I thoroughly enjoyed heading back to sunny Somerset last week to catch the Future of Web Design Tour in Bristol. It was a great refresher of my old college days as I threw together a quick website for a college project but it’s very old hat. The presentations showed me that old languages, limited accessibility and — best of all — old content needed rectifying as quickly as possible. With the advent of HTML 5 and lots of hype around coding quality and accessibility on the web, I feel it’s a perfect opportunity to create my own portfolio website and have more of a web presence than a Twitter account! Elliot Jay Stocks and Bruce Lawson showed, right in front of my eyes, that the perfect personal portfolio can be easy to make, accessible to the majority (nobody’s perfect) and on the cutting edge of website design. So, without haste or delay, I will be working on a spankingly lovely new website to showcase my efforts. I hope to include the multimedia production I created in the past as well as the efforts in many areas of computing I have explored recently.

As if it were in my veins, I’ve carried my trusted sketchbook and notepad out and about, catching ideas as they strike! A true designer can produce more and more fresh ideas, forever, but must eventually settle on one. I haven’t quite found anything right off the cuff so will be piecing together some inspiration using that old fellow delicious.

Coincidentally, I have collected some links on beginner’s digital forensics over at my delicious page, helping with my writing and understanding of the field. This page automagically collects them and their little descriptions, so where necessary I can expand on it and/or comments can be added. Unfortunately the tags won’t be transferred so there will be times where the links are quite bare. I may scrap it and do it all manually if it becomes a pain but I hope not!