March 25, 2019

Crankshaft Technology Update #3 - Celebrating 1 year!

As I was looking through my Scratch files today, I noticed one from April last year. I then realised, "It's nearly been a year since I started!" I then looked into it further, and realised that the first class was on the 22nd of February! So it's a bit late, but it has been over a year since I started teaching programming to local students. It has been a huge success, lots of fun, and I couldn't have done it without the lovely local parents who allowed me to teach their children an important skill.

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March 10, 2019

Crankshaft Technology Update #2 - The new website is live!

Over the past few weeks, as I started learning HTML again, I decided to use one of the tutorials from school to make a new custom website for www.crankshafttech.com.
I started from scratch and coded the entire website, from the content to the layout. This has taken many hours to complete, and will take many more to perfect.
The main features of the website include:
  • A live Facebook feed of posts
  • Links to the blog and the coding site
  • An email us button
  • Adaptive layout and size relative to screen size
www.crankshafttech.com
Using what I have learned from this site, I am now working on a similar solution for coding.crankshafttech.com, but it is still in active development.
The framework is complete, but with all the extra elements, it is much harder to make it adaptive and look good on both mobile and desktop browsers.
test.crankshafttech.com
If you would like to check out the beta version of the site, it can be accessed at test.crankshafttech.com.

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