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So after weeks of delays due to moving and other things, my placement finally began yesterday [14/7/08] at Refreshed Media with an explosion of me panicking about what i know and what i don’t know. Not the best way to start a professional placement at a well established media firm, but anyway what hurts you can only make you stronger.
The first thing that i had to do was create an emailer, a sort of advertisement that gets sent through to your inbox, like spam, but better. After a rocky start with me thinking that i had to completely redo an advert, i realised that all i had to do was crate a html page that included none of that css dazzle that I had been told I would need to learn. Email clients do not like CSS, they do not, so usually change how the advert looks when it goes into the mailbox. So, to reduce file size, a nicely made leaflet, created by designers, had to be cut down and torn apart and then pieced back together into HTML. Using tables. OOOo Tables, contraversial.
Between leaving and coming back, 16 hours passed and so far today as in Tuesday, I have been doing simple emailers that involve basic changing of text so that the adverts relate to a different advertising category.
Since I arrived like yesterday, my colleagues have been really helpful and aided me in everything i needed to do including making coffee. I am really enjoying the experience so far and i know that throughout the six weeks I will be dealt some curveballs that I will have to overcome in the programming ballpark. (I do really like metaphors)
