Phil Benwell - Internet Student

I was searching the Internet the other day and I came across a tool that will help me no end in designing web sites. The tool is called Absolute Color Picker, what it does is run from the desktop and say you are searching the net and you see a colour that you really [...]

I think the title sums it up really. Week 9 of the Practical Web Page Development module had us looking at Content Management Systems (CMS). In its simplest form a CMS is a system that not only splits structure and presentation, like XHTML and CSS but splits the page further into sort of a template [...]

Yesterday I went to my Mum & Dad’s like I do every Sunday (for the Sunday roast), and while getting something from their bedroom I came across my Dad’s gold coin collection. He has had this since before I was born and I even helped him find the odd coin here and there with the [...]

Well not much studying got done this weekend. Instead some decorating did.
Now decorating isn’t my favourite job by a long shot but it certainly is a nice change from the norm for me. Instead of sat in front of a computer screen paying attention to detail, I was let loose with a brush, roller [...]

Well last night I got to class early, almost an hour early. There is only one thing I can say about that, and that is it turned out to be very productive. This is probably because this class was in a room in the Information Commons, a huge multistory library/study facility that I must admit [...]