{"id":534,"date":"2025-03-26T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/?page_id=534"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:25:02","slug":"blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-319 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-design category-light-dark-mode tag-css tag-html tag-website-design\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2025\/02\/27\/how-can-we-design-our-webpages-to-honour-the-users-preference-for-light-or-dark-mode\/\" target=\"_self\" >How can we design our webpages to honour the user&#8217;s preference for light or dark mode?\u00a0<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Light\/dark mode has been around for a while now, but surprisingly, it\u2019s not implemented much, even though it has become much easier with the introduction of new CSS functions. Having both light and dark modes available on a website is beneficial and important for many reasons. In this article, you will read more about why&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-02-27T11:37:16+00:00\">27 February 2025<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-218 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-design category-major-project category-ux-design tag-bulgarian-embroidery tag-major-project-concept tag-website-design\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2025\/01\/10\/ux-research-and-design-for-bulgarian-embroidary-website\/\" target=\"_self\" >UX Research and Design for Bulgarian embroidery website<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">My Major Project website is going to be for non-Bulgarian people who want to learn more about Bulgarian embroidery and its meaning, and also learn how to embroider themselves. For my Major Project, I decided to create an educational website about traditional Bulgarian clothing embroidery. The website is going to be for non-Bulgarian people who&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2025-01-10T11:12:30+00:00\">10 January 2025<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-162 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-events category-reflection tag-events tag-lws tag-reflection\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2024\/11\/22\/london-web-standards-lws-november-2024\/\" target=\"_self\" >London Web Standards (LWS) November 2024<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">On Wednesday (20th Nov 2024) I attended the LWS monthly web community meet-up for the first time and I had a great time! There were three different talks, which I could not fully understand (yet!), but still interesting and will be definitely something to think back to as I learn and progress. The first talk&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-11-22T22:02:22+00:00\">22 November 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-137 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reflection tag-css tag-css-coding\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2024\/11\/12\/what-i-learned-this-week-2\/\" target=\"_self\" >What I learned this week&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This week on the 9th of October we talked about the next layer of The Web Standards Model &#8211; the presentation layer, also known as CSS or the style sheet. We covered the important basics and some best practices: After that we did a demo practice applying a CSS reset and adding some styling rules&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-11-12T20:05:36+00:00\">12 November 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-93 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-reflection tag-file-management tag-html tag-html-coding tag-reflection\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2024\/10\/08\/what-i-learned-this-week\/\" target=\"_self\" >What I learned this week&#8230;<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">On the 2nd of October, during the morning session we covered the history and bases of HTML and in the afternoon sessions we talked about file management, organisation and back up. During the first session, we learned about The Web Standards Model and understood that it is important to follow it to ensure that we&hellip; <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-10-08T19:22:49+00:00\">8 October 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-42 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-design tag-design tag-good-design tag-website-design\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2024\/09\/30\/three-good-websites\/\" target=\"_self\" >Three Good Websites<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This second post focuses on three websites that I believe have good design. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-09-30T14:11:56+00:00\">30 September 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-1 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-design tag-design tag-designed-objects tag-good-design\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/2024\/09\/20\/hello-world\/\" target=\"_self\" >Three Well-Designed Objects<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">This is my first post which will focus on three designed objects in my everyday life that I believe are well-designed. <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2024-09-20T13:40:31+00:00\">20 September 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-534","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-designs-by-niya.uk\/journalpublications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}