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  • Cool Trains! Also Edinburgh Christmas Market, I Guess?
    Having just come back from the beach (see my previous post) I decided to go through my SD card and found a few pictures of when I went to see my sister in November and we went to the Christmas Market. This is gonna be a short post as I honestly didn’t take many pictures …
  • Beautiful Sunrise at Torry Battery and Greyhope Bay!
    One of the things I love the most about living in the North East is the spectacular sunrises we get, overlooking the sea the sun rises over Aberdeen over Greyhope Bay where I went this morning with some friends who were up visiting. I may not be amazing at Portraits but every so often I …
  • An Autumn Wander round the Beautiful Aberdeen Uni Campus!
    As Autumn and winter settle down in the North East I took the opportunity to take a wander with a friend through the University of Aberdeen’s gorgeous campus, a place I called home for 4 years. This is the first time I’d been back since my graduation nearly a year and a half ago. And …
  • NC500: Day 3 – Gorgeous Gardens, Gorges, and an abandoned Castle!
    Day 3 started off bright and early, having to pack up our tent and go find the nearest garage / shop to get more oil for my car, and breakfast for me and my dad. We found oil, coffee, and breakfast at the tiny town of Kinlochewe. The next step was the absolutely gorgeous Inverewe …
  • NC500: Day 2 – Isle of Skye Megaday
    Day 2 was one of the most anticipated days for me, visiting the Isle of Skye has been on my bucket list for a wee while at this point so even a very early wake up wasn’t enough to dampen my spirits. We started off by driving to Kyle of Lochalsh to get breakfast and …
  • NC500: Day 1
    I recently had the joy of doing the NC500 with my dad, we had been planning to do this for a few years, but finally all the stars aligned and we managed to organise things, I was meant to take the car with all our stuff, with my dad taking his bike from Germany, riding …
  • A lovely Saturday Stroll in the Sunny ‘deen!
    I’m writing this blog just as I’m about to head out for another driving lesson, having spent a lovely morning wandering around the Sunny ‘deen visiting shops new and old. Started my morning with a visit to the as ever fabulous Mr. Dun’s Barbers for a quick beard trim and my first coffee of the …
  • A new logo!
    Decided to finally get a proper logo. So no more clip art logo for me. I’ll have more updates soon, just been very busy with work, driving lessons, and moving across the country, again. Thanks to my wonderful partner Eva for it. If you want to hire her for a logo you can find her …
  • Queens Funeral Procession Through Aberdeen. A Somber Sunday Morning
    With the passing of the Queen at Balmoral recently, she has now gone on her ‘Last Great Journey’ through Aberdeenshire, down to Edinburgh, and eventually down to London. Her procession passed close to where I’m now living so I decided to make a morning of it and go see her Majesty. The first stop was …
  • Remote Work Site with Advanced Mobile Menu | Intermediate HTML, CSS & JavaScript CHALLENGE!
    Check out the final result: https://nikmaxott.github.io/intro-section-with-dropdown/Check out the source code: https://github.com/nikmaxott/intro-section-with-dropdown Desktop Design This challenge had a few key steps. I started with the basic Desktop Layout and perfecting that. This required extensive use of the CSS Grid, something that I’m not overly familiar with, in combination with Flexbox, a tool I have a lot …
  • Stuck in an Airport. Again… blame EasyJet!
    Update and TLDR at bottom. I find myself yet again in the Red Lion Wetherspoons in Gatwick Airport waiting on a heavily delayed EasyJet flight, I have 4+ hours until my flight leaves at point of writing. Many ups and downs have occurred in the last 2/3 months, but I am finally back on my …
  • Creative Agency Front Page | Intermediate HTML CSS JavaScript CHALLENGE!
    Check out the final result: https://nikmaxott.github.io/sunnyside-agency-landing-page/Check out the GitHub repo: https://github.com/nikmaxott/sunnyside-agency-landing-page A larger scale project. Using both CSS Flexbox and CSS Grid to achieve this amazing final result! This meant a lot of media queries to enable the webpage to be mobile friendly. Again, a no framework build, just pure CSS, HTML and JavaScript. The …
  • Moving on from Superbase. Revealing my next Chapter
    As of this week I have given in my notice at Superbase and DKAVS, it’s been an amazing 4 years, working on so many amazing projects and meeting so many amazing people. The ability to work from anywhere, be that Hong Kong, Germany, or Scotland has been truly special, and so freeing. Sadly my time …
  • Frontend Mentor Challenge: Interactive Ratings Component – HTML, CSS, JS
    Check out the final result: https://nikmaxott.github.io/interactive-rating-component/Check out the GitHub repo: https://github.com/nikmaxott/interactive-rating-component My first proper interactive challenge. The challenge here was state management, featuring a very simple layout, with very little changing between mobile and desktop versions. I set myself the additional challenge to build this entire project in pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks …
  • Frontend Mentor Challenge: Perfume Product Preview – HTML & CSS FlexBox
    Check out the final result: https://nikmaxott.github.io/ProductPreview/Check out the GitHub repo: https://github.com/nikmaxott/ProductPreview Responsive Mobile Design is the name of the game with this challenge. Although very similar to last weeks challenge, this one had the added complexity of layout changes when switching between Mobile and Desktop view. Using the magic of flexbox this is no problem, …