JSCRobertson

In 1998 (History Lesson) me and my family moved to rented farm called Shaw Wood. It was about 10 mins from a town and a little isolated from everyone else. Being 6 years old I was amazed by this new exciting adventure of living on a farm. 

We had tons of animals; Chickens, Ducks, Pigs, Goats, Cows and even a Turkey. I can remember telling the towny kids at school. They used to be amazed by how my life was different. Of course some people were jealous and gave me grief about it. Looking back at it, they were very very sad people. 

For 15 years our family have been with the Telephone Provider, BT. At first we started off with the phone and phone line and later we got internet.

Now moving day was meant to be 2 weeks ago, but of course the house wasn’t ready and still isn’t ready. My mother set the for BT to end the contact on moving day a good few weeks before we found out the house was not ready. Of course she was too late in cancelling it, meaning we had to set it all up again. This where all the trouble began…

My mother had decided to contact bt by phone (mobile) and re-order the broadband, thinking she would get the same package. When it came it wasn’t, it was the BT Infinity Box. That’s their Fibre Optic service in case you didn’t know. Now, we can’t get Fibre optic, with living in the countryside, it would be too costly for such a small number of housing. We don’t even have Gas.

My real concern is why BT didn’t tell my mother that the area we live in doesn’t support fibre optic. Why did they let her pay for a service they know we couldn’t get? BT has really let us down. I went on to their website to see if it would stop you from ordering an Infinity pack and it does, so why was it, that by phone, they didn’t stop her. Did they see the £££ and get all excited? Or are the staff so incompetent that they don’t know what the different’s is?

This is a fun CSS3 concept. It allows you to have a mobile site without the need of completely building a new site. I have recently been working with them for personal and work related projects and just wanted to express my love for them. 

Now, if you are wondering how to start on media queries, its not too hard. First off, if your html you need a Viewpoint Meta tag. This is a tag that help make the site view properly on a mobile device. Here are some examples. 

But if you dont care for that, I will just post the one I use.

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

That is all you have to include in the HTML, although if you want to add a mobile exclusive class, then nothing is stopping you. It just makes it an empty class in the normal desktop site.

Moving on, into the css. Now I'm still figuring this part out. I was just rewriting the css, for each media query. This is in fact a waste of time. So I've now starting to have 'shared' classes. So say a nav bar has a blue background, that wont get changed in the media queries and just sit outside of them.

This may sound messy, but it makes sense, if you want to change that blue background to a pink, with out changing two lots of classes. The same could apply for text boxes and buttons.

I have only been using two media queries sizes at the moment. I will post them below

For Desktops

@media only screen and (min-width: 767px){ /* Insert CSS */ }

For Mobile

@media only screen and (max-width: 767px){ /* Insert CSS */ }

You can have have different types of media queries, but these are the two I'm currently working with. Since My Site will have a very simple design, It doesn't need to be overly complicated. But If you're working on a very big site, then I would see why you would need multiple media queries. 

In some of my free time, I like to play the lego style game, MineCraft. Of course, I'm not much of a PVP'er and rather build stuff with these legos pieces. 

I am going to use this blog to show off some of my builds, as well as rant about this and that. 

In the comments, please do give me some of your honest opinions and constructive criticism about my builds. It always helps

So this build is based around small cottages. The wooden stairs are trying to resemble a  thatched roof with a nice red brick fireplace. I also messed with upside down stairs to add details for the windows and door.

Back in the early days, I was presented with a Simple Gameboy Colour and a game I would lose many hours to, Pokemon Yellow. I loved that little game, going around catching virtual animals and enslaving them to do my bidding. Exploring this world and finding new, more powerful creatures to help me win a little battle and possibly plastic badge. 

The other day, I decided I to get a DS Lite, this generations GameBoy. I got a preowned for £40, if I also brought a game with it, so i did, that game being Pokemon Black. 

Now, I hadn't actually played the Pokemon Games since the first Generation, so I had no idea of the new game mechanics or even Pokemon. So I inserted the SD card and began the game.

First thing I notice was the introduction was a lot longer, I'm sorry but I want to go ahead and play, not read a lot of junk I wont remember. After the long winded intro, I finally got into the game and ready to pick my Pokemon.

Now remember, I had no idea about these new kinds of Pokemon  so it was like a whole new game. I had 3 Pokemon to choose from, a Leaf thing, a Panda and a Pig. It was a hard chose, but I went with the pig, it looked so cute! It turned out it was a Fire Pokemon, which is always good.

So, Since the day I brought it, til well today, I've explored as much to the point where I got my 3rd Badge and awaiting to go through the desert path.

So far, I'm enjoying it. The game has totally different Pokemon to the one's in Yellow, I haven't even come across one which I recognize, well except the old Picachu brush statue.

But this why I like it. Its a whole new game, and a lot more for me to explore. I do kindof wish we had the options for the Pokemon to follow me, something I do believe was unique to Yellow, but I can live without this feature.

Good Day

I bet your wondering why I'm on Tumblr? 

The main reason is being my site, jscr01.co.uk is no longer having a blog. I have always wanted to blog on it, but because I saw it more of a portfolio site, I was very limited to what I could post, but now, I got this.

I will use this for rants, opinions (I would need to be careful with my opinion, being on the internet and all) as well as a bit gibberish from now and again.