Michæl McFarland Campbell

At the beginning of February, I had to submit my first Milestone Project of my Diploma in Software Development course with Code Institute. I used HTML, CSS, Bootstrap 4, Adobe Fonts, Font Awesome, TinyPNG, MarkDown, and GitHub to create the site.

I chose to create a local information page about the town in which I now live. It contains key useful information about the town, that is information about local facilities:

• banking,
• church,
• food,
• fuel,
• leisure, and
• pharmacy.

Each section is has a background colour that is used in both the navigation and on the information sections.

I had great fun completing the project.

I was greatly pleased to find out that I had achieved a Merit in the project.

You can see the live site at https://michaelmcfarlandcampbell.github.io/portcominfo/index.html

Anyone who wants to see the GitHub repository can see it at https://github.com/michaelmcfarlandcampbell/portcominfo

I hope to continue with the site and make it a fully functioning one alongside the other work in the course.

I’m really pleased that the study pack from the Association for Project Management arrived in the post yesterday. I am planning to complement my ongoing study with the Code Institute on their Diploma in Software Development (Full Stack) with study for the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification.

I enjoy learning new skills and improving on those I already have. In past roles, I have had to project manage on many occasions, often without the formal title. But, I feel that it would be useful to have the formal qualification behind me when applying for new roles in the future.

I had already started down this path back in 2018, but then in December of that year my life changed dramatically with the failure of my kidneys due to Goodpasture Syndrome. I am now in a position where I can spend some time to study for both qualifications. So, that is what I am doing.