Noemi Bisicchia

After my degree in Graphic Design, I worked for almost a year on a small e-commerce website. There I learned to use WordPress and I wanted to learn more about it. With WordPress, most of the things are automated but if you want to make your site special you always need to know more about the back-end.

I had a look online and I found the MA at University of Greenwich. It was a fantastic opportunity for me to learn how to make a website (not just updating it), improve my skills in Graphic Design and to improve my English language.

During the course it wasn’t necessary to know how to use Adobe suite, however, I got many advantages from my previous Degree. To me, the most important thing was to combine design and coding, and with this course I did it.

My Major Project was www.messychef.uk a website for children where they can learn how to cook in an easy and safe way. To build it, I worked on WordPress by coding my own Theme. The idea was to have a website easy to use, where I didn’t have to struggle every time I needed to upload a new recipe. Understanding PHP was essential in order to make all the custom fields work well.

To make an easy journey for the potential “kid”, I had to learn more about kids and try to see their point of view. To help younger kids during the journey I thought it was essential to have illustrations, so even kids that are not able to read could have been able to navigate the website.

Overall, I’m very pleased with the final result. After the last exam, I just updated my LinkedIn profile and two months later a company noticed me and hired me. At the moment, I’m still working for the same UK company as a Front-end developer. My duties are: uploading new products, update the websites and improve the graphic of the sites. I’m learning a lot about PHP and JavaScript and I feel as if I’ll never stop learning with this job, which is quite exciting!