An internship turned contract
Starting in December of 2020 I began an internship with Global Children School. It was labeled I believe as a web development and marketing internship. I worked closely with the CEO of the Company, Tatyana Basile to redesign and redevelop her WordPress site. This was my first role out of college and it was definitely a challenge, but I felt more than prepared for it. In the internship I got well acquainted with how WordPress functions. It is initially a bit scary because the interface can be a bit complicated and it was difficult to find where they hid the stylesheet, and at the time I was used to making html files, not embedding html into php files through a text editor which seemed a bit convoluted. And why were there widgets on the screen that looked goofy and out of place?
Anyway, after toying around with it for a couple months I started to feel like I got a pretty good handle on it. At the same time I was also getting a crash course in Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud and Illustration. I’ve been an artist for years before, but it’s nice to know these tools. I feel pretty comfortable using them, and I created a LOT of digital content including a full brochure for the school, a logo design for a new website yet to be released, a wireframe of that same website, I also made a backdrop for their graduation ceremony, and digital content for the website itself.
Eventually I made it to the end of the internship period, but Tatyana was nice enough to hire me on contract to work a couple weeks finishing up the implementation of the redesign. It was a hugely helpful experience and I greatly appreciated the opportunity.
The site has been updated since, but some changes I developed still remain.