Hanna Nygård Hollström

The last two weeks I’ve been working on an iPhone site, which means I’ve been doing much more HTML-work than usual. The site is so far only a demonstration, and we don’t yet know if the client wants it built for the public. I’ve never done anything for the iPhone before so it was interesting to learn more about it, what possibilities and restrictions there are.

Building a website for the iPhone isn’t too different from building a website to be viewed in a browser on a computer since you use HTML for them both. But there are some things you need to think about. Like what is gonna happen to the site when the user flips the phone, will the site adjust to the new width or look different in any other way? And apparently there are restrictions to what file-types you can download from a browser as well. (We wanted to make it possible to download a vCard with contact info to save to the contact list in the phone, but the iPhone won’t let you do that, even though you can save a vCard from your e-mail.) And all of the JavaScript I wanted to use didn’t work. There is one thing I really liked about working with an iPhone website though; there is only one browser in which you need to make the site work! Ok, you have Opera on the iPhone now, but it seems it won’t even render any other fonts than Helvetica, and for just the demonstration site, making it look good in Opera wasn’t important. (Opera is a great browser if your on a computer though!)

This week I’ve been working with a wordpress theme too. Which is great, I’ve learned so much about it in just two days that i now feel much more motivated to actually fix the theme for this blog. It’s just too bad I’m so shit at design, but I’ll try.

I’ve just had a meeting with Hege, my supervisor for the internship. I needed to make an evaluation of my internship with some feedback from her and leave the documentation on it to Hyper. I had prepared a few questions on my performance to Hege, but the meeting turned out she and me just talking in a more natural way most of the time.

We discussed what I had done well and what I could do better. Hege told me everyone was very happy with me, and she didn’t really have much to tell me on what I could improve. She said that they would like more feedback from me though on what I think of Sennep and working here. And they want me to keep learning new things the way I do so that I have a diverse skill-set.

We also talked about Sennep and how the company is evolving. When I first came here six months ago, Sennep was working almost exclusively with flash sites, except for one interactive installation. Now we are looking more into new technologies, installations, iPhone-apps and more HTML solutions than Flash. We are still doing much flash work, but I think the company overall is more open to other technologies. And it’s been really interesting for me to be able to see this development and I’m very happy with it since it will give me more varied work.

She also said something that made me happy to hear, and I think is the reason Sennep is such a good place to work: “We just want everyone to have fun, be happy with what we’re doing and do good work. And for Sennep to be recognized for our work and for everyone to be happy and celebrate!”