Just though that Ill give a quick update on my life at Uni. So far exam wise I have had 3 exams with an average of around 70% which I am quite happy with and 2 bits of coursework with an average of around 80%. The main thing that I cannot wait for now is the Easter break which is in 2 weeks and will last an entire month and ill only have 1 bit of coursework to do and I have almost already finished it so ill probably be doing a lot of work on all of my websites, trying to improve where possible.

One of my mates at Huddersfield Uni is studying Game Design and he has not had a single exam so far so has only had coursework and even that coursework sounds like fun because he has to do research into games like Half life 1 and World of Warcraft etc. I was really tempted to study Game design at uni but I would have probably gone to America because there are more game companies over there than over here in England. I would have probably gone to http://www.iadtvegas.com/ because I have heard good things about it.

So to summarise I am quite happy on my course “Chemical Engineering with Management”, and even though there are other courses out there that might have been more fun and less work, I would still stay on my course.

I have been waiting for this moment for quite some time now and now it is here, the Christmas holidays… I ahve been waiting for this holiday for quite some time because my University don’t have half term like Sixth Form/High School so we only have 2 breaks, Christmas and Easter. The only bonus is that they are both a month long so that’s quite nice apart from that fact that when I return Ill probably have forgotten everything that I have learnt that semester and get chucked straight into exams. But who cares, its a whole month off

Ok I better stop with the boring bit to do with my life and get back onto what this blog is about. Over Christmas I am hoping to get some work done with the new design of SpudMud , I have already gotton a designer to do me a new design and now that that is finnished and coded (by me) I am slowely brining it to life. You can have a look at how the development is going over at beta.spudmud.com. I have still got a lot of work to do i.e. finishing off the games, video and pictures sections as well as trying to make all of the code valid (not sure why I want it to be XHTML valid but I just do).

I better write a bit about the designer now that you have seen the great job he did with the design. I found Ed’s site over at the DP forums and immediately contacted him to ask for a quote after seeing his great portfolio. The quote he gave my shocked me at first, it just seemed to low (I wont mention any values), but I shouldn’t complain should I. His work was done in about 1 and a half weeks which I was quite happy with considering it was 5 pages fully custom designed. He was great at communicating and always kept me updated. The thing that I was really amazed about was the way he could understand what I wanted because as you probably can see from this blog, I am not the best at getting things across.

I am hoping to get the new design up and running by Christmas but I think that that’s very unlikely because I’m simply too lazy at the moment due to Uni taking everything out of me and I have coursework and exams to revise for.

Innoix.com is my latest project. Currently its still in the planning stages so am not releasing any more information but expect an update within the next dew days.

If all goes well it is going to be a very long term project that will span many years. Sorry about not releasing much about it but I dont like people stealing my ideas etc

Well I’ve just finished my 1 week holiday to Tenneriefe which was great fun, got a nice tan etc, so im quite happy. Might post some pics later.
I did decide to after my exams start on SpudMud.com but that didnt quite work as planned because I was a bit too lazy but now that ive been lazy for 2 weeks I better get started. I have decided to add the following features:

• Pictures section
• Animations section
• Changing the layouts so they flow more
• Adding more features behind the scenes to the admin panel
• Possibly changing the entire layout round a bit

The only problem is in a few weeks im going to Switzerland for a week so I better get started soon because there is quite a lot of work to do still and I better get it done while im young

Well currently I have my A Level exams which are the last of the high-school/college exams so that is why I haven’t posted for so long. So, on the 25th June I am finished with High School for the rest of my life, sound great doesnt it . And the even better thing is that after the exams I have 4 months of nothing until University (if I get the grades). So I can do whatever I want for that time.

My plans for the holidays are:

1. Work more on my current main project www.SpudMud.com and finish it properly and see how much I can get out of it
2. Go up to the lake district for a week or so and go camping/hiking etc with a few friends
3. Maybe start a new web project, I have quite a few ideas so I might just give them a go considering im gonna have all this time
4. Earn some money working at the Pool (Life-Guarding) for university and for marketing my sites more.