Websites have come a long way since the first text-based designs in the early 1990’s; and they continue to change rapidly with the advancement of supporting technologies.
Flash animations, HTML5, CSS3, Web 2.0 and now web 3.0 – for the non-expert, it’s difficult to keep up!
Luckily, Wales is working to ensure that we nurture these important skills and develop our own future web design experts.
On 24 March, we saw some of this work first-hand at the final of the skillscompetition Wales IT Web Design competition. This was the first time that Wales has held a challenge of this kind, which was organised and hosted by Swansea College.
Participating colleges included Coleg Sir Gâr, Swansea, Gorseinon, Pembrokeshire, and Bridgend. Competitors were tasked with animation and website construction activities which took place over a gruelling 6½ hours.
It was an exciting and closely fought competition making it difficult for the judges to make the winning decisions.
Ultimately, David Bowen from Coleg Sir Gâr, took the gold medal, (pictured here with Nick Couling, Director of Faculty, Engineering and IT, Swansea College). The silver medal went to Kerryanne Tolhurst, Swansea College, and Daniel Jones, Gorseinon College won the bronze medal.
Congratulations to all competitors, to Swansea College and to all other participants for making this a highly successful event.
We are currently working on editing some video footage of the competition which we will upload to YouTube soon. Subscribe to our blog or YouTube channel to make sure you keep up-to-date.
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