Degree results were issued today for all of the Computer Science 3rd years, with one important exception – the MEng students like me. Took the receptionist ages to work out why my envelope was missing from the pile – it turns out that we don’t get our results until after 12th July. Damn, wanted to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Swansea Uni’
Student Union Plagiarism
June 19th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. 1 Comment.
I normally don’t comment on things involving clients – firstly I think it is unprofessional and secondly I have had to deal with many difficult clients since I started working with web design – it comes with the job. This time, however, I am making an exception. I am an editor for the student newspaper [...]
Woo!
June 4th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Woo! Exams are over! The last one went really well I think. Despite there being a fantastic mistake in the paper.
Website Accessibility Part 2
May 3rd, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
Some of you might remember that I posted an entry back in March about website accessibility and a motion I was raising in the Student General Meeting (SGM) at university. Essentially, the motion was designed to push the Students’ Union and the university to improve the accessibility of their various websites. The first attempt at [...]
21 pages down, 80ish to go
April 26th, 2007 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
As the title suggests, I’ve written the first 21 pages of my dissertation. Got quite a bit of editing to do on it, but for now it’ll do. Just 80 odd more to go. These next few weeks are going to be mad.
Off the shelf
October 7th, 2006 by Dafydd Vaughan. No Comments.
If there was ever any proof that using off the shelf website content management packages were a bad idea, this has to be it. The Swansea University Student’s Union website runs off a package called Joomla! which describes itself on its website as: Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems [...]