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Meeting with Bate Brand



My first meeting with Bate Brand was in their office in Ryde (Isle of Wight) . I presented my portfolio and explained to the team what I aim to achieve for the company on a voluntary basis. Mr. Bates gave me a description of what Bate Brand deals with and introduced me to a service called “Signature Printing” which provides print consultancy and advice to interested clients. I was shown the existing website and was offered to work on creating a modernised version of it. I accepted the offer and got to know the other members of the team as well – Elliott (Graphic Designer) and Rachael (Sales and Marketing). 

For most of my meetings with Bate Brand I got to work more with Elliott who showed me the principles of Squarespace – a content management system for building and publishing websites. It did not take me too long to get used to it as I had worked with similar online builder before. I was also given a task by Elliott which aimed to include HTML code into a Squarespace that is also using the twenty/twenty plugin - http://www.massexod.us/blog/how-to-create-before-and-after-images-for-squarespace


Another piece of code Elliott asked me to implement was relying more on CSS and Javascript and it adds animations to content blocks of the page in a way that it looks more dynamic and fun - https://www.droverrideshare.com/blog/2016/7/25/css-animations-and-squarespace


Both were completed successfully as Elliott seemed impressed and suggested that we should use them for the new Signature Printing website. At the end of the session Elliott asked me if I can come up with a demo concept for the new Signature Printing website and look into some similar websites’ design choices.

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