It's Tuesday, I've got my tea, I'm on my way to uni, I'm loving these three days weekends, it's fantastic. So hopefully today's going to be a good day. Oh there's a little Robin. He missed him, how cute. That means good things are coming. So I'm back from uni and today was a good day to be honest. I know I started off saying on my last vlog that I hate research but today we had our first session was all about systematic review research and it wasn't that bad even though we don't need that type of research for our assignment or our poster but it's going to be really useful for our third year. So it was a nice session as far as research goes. I'm quite happy with that and actually I learned a little bit extra so yeah I'm quite happy with that. As much as I don't like research that was a good session as far as research goes, does that make sense? Yeah you get me. So then our next session was group work. So we had to meet up with our poster groups, we all came together, we've gone through the CASP tool so now that we've done the CASP tool against the article we've analysed our evidence and that's it. Our first presentation is pretty much done. All we've got to do now is put it together on an actual PowerPoint and then that's it and then now all really we need to do is talk through it. It's a 10-minute poster presentation so we have to time it. We've got two minutes each to speak and do our little bit and that's it. So I think we're going to be all right for the poster presentation. I've got faith. I think we've done really well as a team and I can't see any problems happening between now and the presentation on the 11th of July so things cross for that one. And then our next session was just talking about our assignment again, how to lay out the structure, what we should be including and that was a really good session because it's really helpful and it's quite nice because our assignment guide is really well structured. It's got exact exact word count for each section and it's got a clear section of clear guidance of what we should be doing on our assignment so that's really helpful. So I think that's going to be an easier assignment than the rationale that I'm having to write for the leaflet because the rationale that I'm writing for the leaflet at the minute, I'm sorry if you don't know what I'm doing because you haven't watched my vlogs so we've had to create this leaflet surrounding a mother and baby issue because as a nurse we have to be aware of different issues so I'm going to do a health promoting leaflets around and breastfeeding and the benefits and things like that so that should be good but alongside the leaflet we have to write a thousand word rationale on evidence-based practice and that's it's not tricky but I don't know if I'm writing it right. Does that make sense? Like I've never wrote a rationale before so I don't know if what I'm writing makes sense so it's definitely something I'm going to just have a look into but I have finished my rationale, I've wrote a thousand words, I'm hoping I've done it right but if not I've got it all there ready so I can just adjust it and tweak it to how it's supposed to look so that's a bonus and that's it that's all for today to be honest. Today's been overall a good day so tomorrow I'm going into university I've got a lecture at 12-2 and then I've got a hard scholarship meeting with the Dean 2 till about half four so that'll be nice I've got a nice line tomorrow so I can't wait for that one I'll see you all tomorrow. So today is Wednesday and we had such a fun session today we were talking about the NMC Code of Conduct about record keeping and how actually how serious it can get if you don't document something and how important that that actually is if something God forbid something goes wrong on the ward and you've got to go to court from a situation that happened two years ago and try and remember what happened it's not documented it didn't happen so it's really important that as part of the NMC Code and just you know your own professional standards and good practice you should be recording everything you do even hand washing everything it doesn't matter if you've got a page long of notes at least it's there and you're covering yourself so that's one point that came from that session we should be doing that as nurses we should know that already but sometimes we sort of we don't think about things and I mean I thought I was documenting quite detailed notes but then thinking about it actually I don't think I've ever stated clearly I have washed my hands before and after seeing that patient so God help me if I'm going up into court but if I was doing a wound for example if I've done any sort of wound care that's when I have I've definitely 100% I've said hand washing or aseptic technique was used I've clearly documented that so that's good but I didn't think about that for other patients if you're just going in washing and dressing and doing things for them because you know there's a whole hand washing guidance that we should be following and ideally it's part of their care so it should be in the care notes makes sense so that's something that I've learned today always put in the smallest of details and don't panic about it because now I'm panicking about it um but anyway today's session so today's session was amazing it was basically we had a room full of students I don't know how many students are in my class probably about a hundredish roughly between 70 and 100 in one room and so the two lecturers were fantastic the one lecturer pretended to be a judge so and she's actually been trained we found out in law so she knew exactly what to say to us how to say things to us and it's exactly how give or take how it should be done in a courtroom so it was quite scary and we were all given a fake set of notes that we had to read through at the start just as a brief to just so we can go through and know what we're going to be saying and things like that and then the other lecturer come round with a little hammer and pointed to a student and we had to stand up and swear on the oath as if we were in a courtroom and go against the judge and the judge would point things out you know it says this but what does this mean why have you written this why have you left this out and really quizzed some people I felt so sorry for the students because she gave them a really hard time and I was like oh my god but it was good it was a fun fun lecture it really made you think it was really interactive it really got the students terrified I think so it was great overall it was a fantastic session and it was really good to get you thinking so I will definitely be thinking more about my own record keeping and even though I know that I write quite a lot of detail in my notes my notes are really long I mean I know I wash my hands I'm thorough but if you don't document it technically it didn't happen whether you did or didn't so message to all students document everything even your hand washing do it every single small detail don't let anyone laugh at you because you've written too much in your notes write as much as possible smallest details because if you're called up on that stand and you've got to remember something from two years ago you're gonna want those detailed notes so that's it it was a great session I'm looking forward to tomorrow and yeah I'll see you tomorrow on our way to see Dippy the dinosaur how'd you feel about this? Thrilled. I'm going to university I've got the day off but I've got a couple of appointments that I've got a going for so going in to do that it's going to be an exciting day talking all about a workshop that we're going to be setting up but that was under wraps at the minute I can't tell you too much about that and the other appointment I've got is for the lovely health magazine that we're doing so really nice appointments creative loving life really where far going in so let's see what today brings so I'm just back from my two meetings that I had at university my first one was a meeting with the scratch magazine guy and we talked all about the magazine and what we can do with it how we can move forward with it how we can incorporate their new health magazine into it so it's all going to be linked basically because there's this for some reason there's a big divide between the city centre campus and our campus which is just outside the city centre there seems to be a divide between the two universities for whatever reason and we want to bring that together you know we're all part of Birmingham City University no matter what campus you're at no matter what you're studying so it would be nice to have everything just linked and nicely joined together wouldn't it yes and so we've decided to collab, collab and listen so we're going to collaborate together we're going to make this amazing magazine we're going to literally start from scratch excuse the pun we're going to start from scratch used to be the scratch magazine we're going to raise that we're going to get a new magazine it's going to be fresh it's going to be new I'm going to be the health editor and I'm going to make this health section which is going to be amazing we're going to have it informative we're going to have some fun facts we're going to have some probably anatomy and physiology thrown in there for roles we're going to have some prizes some giveaways some question answers we're going to have some blogs but also going to make it hopefully an online magazine I'm pretty sure it's going to be an online magazine what we're just debating whether to keep it a physical magazine as well or just stick to online because I mean for me I'm a social media person I love everything online it's just easy to access it's there and we're saving paper so for me it's no brainer I would love an online magazine I'd love to just create this website that's going to be amazing we can have vlogs like this which is going to be amazing and I think it'll be far better and hopefully in my head it looks amazing it's going to be amazing so fingers crossed we set up a fantastic site so I'm looking to meet up with a couple of the guys from the magazine from the other campus probably end of June July time and we're going to get our heads together and get it up and running hopefully I mean this is my aim want it up and running for the welcome week in September so that students can come in target them we get them fresh start as we mean is go on we're going to promote it there's a Twitter account that we need to completely revamp and make it look amazing start posting nobody's posted from the magazine account since last year come on guys get on it gonna get on the Twitter promote it to death promote it on Facebook as well so that's going to be coming soon and when I find when it's up and running and the links there I'll put the link below and everyone can have a look and see what new site we've got so that'd be really exciting so yes we've got loads of new ideas for this new magazine it's going to be amazing we need to come up for the title as well so if anyone's got any suggestions if you live in Birmingham the west midlands even if you don't live here but you have some suggestions related to Birmingham please come up with a great title for our magazine and post the comments below ideas are very much welcome and what would you like to see included in that what would make you read it and can keep you coming back to it let us know and then so my second meeting today was with the careers team careers team we love you so myself and Deb we both met up with the careers team we're talking about this top secret project that we're doing at the minute which is exciting look I'm so excited for it I don't know why my springs nobody can hear me no one's home you're not in my room listening okay so we've got this new project coming up it's going to be some workshops coming your way Birmingham City University for everybody whether you're staff whether you're a student whether you're anybody who's everybody across Birmingham City universities whoever you are you are going to want these workshops because they're going to be amazing and they're run by us why why wouldn't you come to them just a little inside info for that watch out for the workshops they're going to be amazing like in my head they're going to be fantastic and I pray everybody comes to these workshops because they're going to be really fun they're going to be I don't want to say too much they're going to be amazing trust me and we've got an amazing team together to produce this and make this happen and for me this is a massive achievement because it's something that I met up with Alex at the careers team and we said back in my careers meeting I spoke about my confidence and public speaking and the fact that when a qualifier I'd love a health education role and so Alex suggested you know you could probably build experience doing maybe set up a workshop or something like that and I was like yes that's a great idea but then I didn't really think about it afterwards I sort of said yes that's a great idea and then I didn't do anything with that information so recently I've had this idea for the workshop so we're going to get on it we're going to do it and it's going to be amazing really excited oh I did this lying today oh I've been only for two hours and then I went to see Dippy the dinosaur as you saw in my little video but as soon as I left there that was in the afternoon that was about two three o'clock and I just felt awful and not to go into too much detail but I had horrible a phlegm build up and I felt like I was getting a head cold I had the worst menstrual cramps in the world you know that old that taboo word menstruation but oh they were bad they really like knocked me for six I felt so ill and I was supposed to go to a quiz on the Thursday night and I'm gutted because I love the quiz the quiz last time was great it's run by my friend Kelly who's fantastic and I'm gutted that I had to miss it but I was so ill I was on the sofa just like that was a great impression honest and yeah so I haven't been feeling well I've managed to go I did go to university yesterday I wasn't really fully with it even though I was there I wasn't really with it but I had a great session I had great meetings yesterday as you know and today I feel better my throat's still feeling a bit meh but other than that I feel good the sunshine is coming out even though the temperature has dropped a little bit so I'm gonna do a little bit of gardening I'm gonna finish off the little bits that I had for the poster and that's it that's my weekend I'm gonna relax pretty much for the rest of the weekend and I can't wait and should we see what Jeremy's doing why not that you're ready what are you doing jam some bathing good lad also look the potatoes are overgrowing my mint is overgrowing my onions are sprouted my bushes looking beautiful I've got more strawberries coming in the sunflowers growing yeah do you think Joe can have a nice garden yeah you're gonna stop eating it yeah


Thank you. And it also is my first time presenting to such a good audience, so there with me. I'm really nervous. So we'll get into it because I'll just tell you a little bit about myself. I'm a freelancer. I'm also a mentor. I like to think of myself as an amateur artist. So I really like watercolor and topography and sketching a number of tools that I like doing it.  And she makes it on my own experience a bit later on too. And yeah, I'm a graphic designer, a tone work designer, and I'll tell you a little bit about my journey. So I went to uni to study graphic design, and my plan was to come out of that and design blueberries and different materials, things like that. I had no intention of getting into web at all. And one of my courses at uni was a basic web designer, and I learned some basic HTML, CSS. So I really fell in love with it. I really combined being creative and designing as well as being a big techie and feeling like I can be the housewife as long as I actually know the conditions are really cool. So I really, I got into that and at the time I worked for an architect and convinced him to let me build him my very first paid website. And this is it, yeah. I built it, so I had been photoshopped and then built it in DreamWeekline HTML and you'll notice that I put the logo at the bottom of the page, which I'm not sure why but that was a good idea. I wasn't designing it on time because it's a massive screen so it obviously didn't fit on a big screen but on a laptop these days it would be hidden down the bottom. And also of course I wasn't responsive, none of that. But I was pretty proud of it. And then so it was a few years later that I discovered WordPress and thought, oh, this is pretty awesome, I can build websites in DSN and it's great for my clients because then I can sell it with the content management system and they can edit things themselves and then I could therefore sell it for a high price tag. So I got into WordPress but I didn't develop them in WordPress myself. I was just designing Photoshop and then teamed up with a developer giving to him a new thread after theme forming. So I did that for a few years until I discovered page builders and there's a lot out there now, the one I discovered at the time was Divi and it just opened up my world. It really empowered me as a designer to be able to not only design websites but also build them myself. So it allowed me to cut and it also allowed me to cut out having to design Photoshop and I can just design straight in the browser, which is a huge time saver. So this is where my process is up to now and this is what I'm going to go through today is based on that process. But even if you don't design websites, this is where I'm for a lot of the steps and a lot of things I've thought about this would be better to properly. So let's get into it. I will just mention too that I'm currently playing a teaching this process to people. So I sort of have the nine stages. I have these little metaphors that probably can't be explained but I'm quite happy with a lot of them. So the first stage is the target and this is where we get super clear on your ideal client and your website goals. I really liked this quote I thought it sort of summed up what I'm about to talk about which is the only important thing about design is how it relates to people. So at the start what I like to do is firstly identify the goals of the ideal client. So we can think about the whole target market but as well as just getting specific on the ideal client and I like to actually create just a really basic, not a detail but basically I do the client avatar for that particular website and sort of put in there what their likes and their dislikes are, how old are they, whether they've lived, what's their career, that kind of thing and then I can refer to that any time I'm trying to make a design choice on the website refer what are their goals when they come to the website, what are they there for and what do they want. Next is the brand's goals or the business goals, what are they going out of the website? So this could be obviously to market them, it could be to sell a particular product on there or it also could be to streamline their business a bit or maybe they want to form on there that's going to capture some information that's going to save a lot of admin time or something like that so I didn't mind what those goals are and then lastly did edit some goals. So if you're just going to edit the website what things are they going to want to edit often that you're going to need to make easy for them to access where obviously you don't have to hurry that make it easier for them to be able to edit it on an ongoing basis. So if you have the time, create an idea of client avatar it doesn't have to be very detailed, they can be very detailed if you've seen some of the templates out there I personally don't go into that much effort but just having that there is a really good thing for me as a designer when I'm figuring out what the design and layout of the page is going to be wherever I'm going to put things what are the things people are going to want to put on. So next is the goods. So this is where I gather together the content needed to create the site. So I started out firstly with the site map so essentially that's just an outline of what are the pages going to be and the hierarchy. So I think of it really as your main menu essentially in most websites that's probably just the main menu where things drop down but there might be some other hidden pages on that site there might be certain landing pages or thinking pages you might think to do as well so just sort of laying that out you know, assign that and then thinking of the keywords for the website so it's always you know, I don't get into really full on as your copywriting myself but it's always good to just know so you can think of like good strong page titles and things like that throughout the job and the keywords are always really good to give to a copywriter and even get professional copywriting done do a bit of keyword research first and figure out what the keywords are and then copywriting so whether you're going to do that yourself or outsource to someone so one thing I actually added into my process a few years ago now was including copywriting in my packages because if anyone's worked on a website job you probably know that in your way you're the longest from clients is the copywriting it can be something that delays the job so much so including that in my packages has really sped up the process for me and I don't do it myself I've just partnered with a couple local copywriters who give me a good break and I've just included them and it's all just packaged together for the client and this is a couple of cool tips here regarding the content and things Legal123 if you haven't heard of it is that an Australian website that you can get the terms and conditions and privacy policies and things it is a paid service I think it's the local website package that has some of the three main things to need that display my privacy policy and terms and conditions it's about $170 but say if you refer to a client there you can sign up as an affiliate and then you actually get like 40 bucks back every time someone buys something so that's really cool and then some ways together in content that I found with the use of this who is contents name which is an online tool I think by it is an Aussie going my name is Ethan Brisbane he's created this tool that you can pretty much just send a client there they can enter in all the information that you need for the website and they'll get automatic reminders it's sort of periods of time saying like hey your contents do you want to work you need to submit your content and they're sort of doing all the chasing up for you so that's a really cool tool if you're like me you just hate having to email clients every week and things the way in which they're doing that and then another way of doing that is the Trello board which is one that I'd set up that I just apply it to a Trello board this is an example of my Trello board they keep going there they upload the logo files the style right that have one what they want their website name or tagline all that all those things to be and you can also put a deadline and then you can set this up however you want it and I'll have a look at this at the end too so if you want to carry a copy of my Trello board you might want to look into it cool so the next one is the style so this is where I find the style of the website and this is where my dog gets a camion that's the ring name very stylish so firstly is one of the colours of the website so you can come from the logo or the branding style guide if they already have one or you might be coming up with those yourself if you're having to come up with the colours yourself they're just some really cool tools that I've found for a bit of inspiration coolers.co I think it is and for my gradient so coolers.co is one of just developing colour palettes putting some colours like it has some colour palette suggestions and then you can grab all the colour palettes and add them to your site so that's really good and UI gradients is a similar thing but it's mainly just for gradients really nice gradient combinations and then the fonts one really so giving the fonts to your website and one cool tool I've found for funpair.co which pairs together Google font combinations so it's all Google fonts on there and it just puts them together some interesting combinations and it also leads to seeing them in the wild so you know it leads to websites that actually use those combinations so you can see them in action and then it brings together images as well so there's obviously a lot of stock image websites out there like iStock and Adobe stock but I thought I'd put some free ones up here Unsplash is a really cool free stock image website that I would use every day also it's a really good one Rawpixel is really good too it has free images and paid ones and Otilly is just a little bit different it is a paid membership one but she does get away to free photos a month and they're really kind of girly feminine like late images which I love so I subscribed to her and she's a queen whether or not so I thought I'd put her up there but yeah they gather together all images next I'm up to the canvas so this is where we set up your site Unsolid Foundation so at this point this is where I go grab the domain hosting I usually do that in R1.4 so I personally I'm roasting my websites I use Siteground and I just Bible at the one time otherwise you know if you already had the domain hosting but this is where I do that stuff and then I also install WordPress and yeah this one a little tip here and I'm sure you probably voted a lot today already is not to skimp on hosting there's so many website hosting providers out there and if you're serious about your business you definitely want to do a website post not every business needs or can afford WP engines some of those really good ones so that's why I find Sitegrounds quite good for my small clients it's quite cost effective so next we up to the brush which is to set up the basics of your WordPress website and so this is where I typically install my theme, my child theme most of my plugins and the general settings on the website what I one of the biggest time savers I've found is an app called or a tool called ManagedWP which allows me to clone a staging site when I'm setting up a new website so there's lots of tools out there that can do this and actually in the last presentation I just saw one of the plugins that he was talking about with some migration clone tool and it sounds like it probably does exactly what this does and it's free but essentially what it does is this is a screenshot set up so that's already got my theme installed, my child theme installed it's got a whole bunch of plugins that I regularly use and just some basic settings so all those things when you first set up a website you'll notice you have to be over and over again each time and it's probably it's got the easy work but it probably takes an hour and an hour to do to say that I just have this already set up as a staging site and then I just clone it over to the new hosting or wherever the new destination site's going to be and within 15, 30 seconds it's all done and ready for me to go and I just have to go on and change it so that's a huge time saver and my new WP is it's free to set up and then for that planning ability I think I'll pay back $2 Australian a month so it's really cheap but maybe if you want to pay that check out that the last time I was talking about because I can do it yet but it's pretty cool too oh yeah and the tip here is this is where I typically do a set up a coming soon page basically because and I've shown you this is the coming soon page I have where if you have a website that you're building and it might take a month, three months, six months depending on how long the client takes it'll be up there and Google can be indexing it during that time so rather than not getting any index or anything you can put up a coming soon page like this you can put in the relevant keywords and the relevant page title and description of these and it will actually start indexing the site and doing it that way so this just shows you here I have this basic template and this is the basic one and so you can make sure that it's all indexed and once the website actually goes live it's actually starting to appear on Google already and then we're finally at design time so the first thing I do is create a wireframe and this is generally just for my reference this is my fancy wireframe that I draw for myself this is for a job I only did a month ago so I don't have to show this to the client obviously it's not very impressive but for me it just gives me like when I get all the content and I know it's going to need to go on the home page for example I can then put this in like a bit of a layout in my head before I start building just makes it a lot easier than trying to do it on the go so I have a little sort of method to my band that's here you'll see like all the little circles at the top or obviously the social media links the dashes of the main menu items then if I have a heading I'll just do a straight line if it's body text I'll do like a squiggle so I just know for my reference that's what's going on and that really awesome box with a weird mountain thing in it that's my idea of the image so that's very convenient to go but just doing that for a page just makes it a lot easier for me today once I go into the building to design I know what I'm actually going to do um so I don't know why I frame and then we'll just create all the pages I won't actually add anything to them I'll just create them and set them up as pages and that way I can then add them to the main menu I'll go into my theme options my theme customizer and I'll just set up some basics with that so we might need to set up the color palettes and colors that I've chosen the ones that I'm going to be needing all the time I'll set up the fonts that I've chosen I'll add the logo just all those basic kind of things like the layout of the header stuff like that and once I've got all that set up that's when I go to my visual builder which is I used to be but obviously there's a lot of different page builders out there visual builder elementor they're all fairly similar in what they do I then yeah I'll go to the visual builder and I'll just start designing in there and this is just a quick big sort of this is how dv works and I have used dv to build before it it's quite similar as well and so you're designing and seeing it all come to life similar to Gutenberg on steroids really and so yeah I'll just go in there do all that create my frame page then the next step is once I'm happy with the frame page I then create the library with all moving on to the rest of the site so what I do is create a library of items to reuse throughout the site which saves a lot of time so firstly yeah so if possible you just save sections or modules or whole pages so for instance if you've had a user call the action section or multiple pages of your website save that and you can save that if there is like a global item which will be exactly the same across all the all the pages and the benefit of a global item is that you edit it once in one location and it will change it across all of those locations you don't have to go on to ten different pages you know change your full stock or something like that for other items maybe you just have a bunch of services pages you've got three different services and the layout's going to be exactly the same for each of those pages so for the layout obviously it's not going to be a global one and then replicate that on the other pages and then just swap out the content and then you do the text and things one tip here is I learned this the hard way, test it on mobile some tablets before you save those items because if you're then going to be duplicated many times and then you test it later and go oh that's terrible on mobile you don't want to have to be changing it over and over again so I like to test these before I actually go and start duplicated and then we're into the fit out which is filling all the other pages of your website so now you've got all your library items all set up then you can just start running and creating all those pages and yeah and then I just test and get it proven obviously before we're ready to go live a tip here is to avoid shining objects in drama can be really tempting when you've got these page builder things and there's so many different options and animations and there's gradients and there's parallax and all this cool stuff going on and you just want to do everything really going back to the idea of who's that ideal client what's the goal of the website what's the best way of getting them to sort of funnel through and get to the end goal and you don't want to have all these different things going on and distracting them so maybe you do want a bit of a flashy thing happening and it's going to get their attention so just keeping that in mind and I thought this was a great tip less is not necessarily more just enough is more so make it yet look awesome and all that but just keep in mind what the goals are for the website and what's going to be the best method of getting people to do what you want them to do and lastly I really don't like this metaphor but it's all I can come up with is the housekeeper so clean it up, make it fast and get your website ready to open its doors so at the end of every job just before I go live I just like to tidy everything up probably that very city person in me I just want to make sure that everything is nice and clean and tidy so basically cleaning it up is getting rid of all those extra images that you probably uploaded that you're not using on the site anymore removing any plugins you don't actually need anymore deleting any pages you don't need that you may have just made up draft pages or draft posts or something like that that you're not actually going to use just cleaning it all up which is really important too if you're building websites for clients make it nice and clean before you give it to them otherwise they might just get confused about all these extra pages and things like that I also like to add text to all the images as well and obviously I do this after I've deleted all the images I don't need otherwise you're just going to be wasting time adding all text images you're going to end up deleting anyway there's a lot of images so compress them so before I upload them I've already resized them roughly roughly to what they should be I'm going to optimize them a bit but then adding like a plugin like WP's which is what I use just to compress the images which is even further to make your website load a lot faster adding a security plugin as well if you need it, some posting providers you don't necessarily need it I know I use WordFence on all my siteground websites but on my WP engine one so I won't let me use WordFence because there's security being in place for that in there but not security anyway but ensuring that there is some form of security in your websites is important adding a caching plugin as well so something that caching and caching so adding a caching plugin to speed up your website a lot but I might not use WP Rocket which is a K1 but there are some free ones out there and then also adding Google Analytics and Search Console so saving that up and connecting that to your website even if you or if you're doing it for a client if you don't feel like you need it it's a good thing to have just for down the track if for some reason you're down a year or two time you want to start doing something or with your website, you want to start marketing it it's good to have those statistics and everything in place already and just a tip here is to have a pre-flight checklist so I have a checklist of about 30 or 40 points on it that I just wrote here at the end of every job and take them off and make sure that they're done and it's really easy to deal with the end too and now if you just read through all this and get to the bottom so having some kind of checklist and I just have that set up on my trolley board and go through that each time and then launch it then you're ready to go so that's it and then I just wanted to there's a link here to if all those things I was talking about if you want to go to that URL there I've got links to all that and I also have an ideal client that you can download there too and link to my trolley board thank you


Has the MCU finally done it? After years of giving us redesign after redesign of the classic Spider-Man outfit, have they finally given us a comic accurate version of the Spider-Man outfit? Yeah, I mean this thing is... It's pretty much as comic accurate as it gets. Do you like that swinging animation? That was brought to me by my very own CGI team at Nero Does Stuff and at Ugo 9p1, who has and will be providing me with animations and graphics of this costume for this suit dissection. Nero did the swinging animation and Ugo provided the models, and I want to make sure I give them a big thank you for doing so. But why are we doing this? Why am I hiring a CGI team? And why am I paying them fairly? Because the suit isn't real yet. This Spider-Man suit is getting the Civil War treatment for now, where he's entirely CGI and hopefully in the next movie when this suit shows up, he'll be wearing a real costume. Hopefully, I mean, hopefully. We know, we know the MCU. You know, at first I thought this suit was real, at least for the part where Peter steps out of the window for the swing, but I've heard it isn't. Then I can't really tell myself, but if someone could let me know in the comments, I'd really appreciate it. You know, now that I'm taking a closer look at it, the fabric on the table? That doesn't even look real either. The colors of these fabrics look way too thin, so I guess for the entirety of the video, we'll have to rely on my CGI team's renders for references of the costume. Take it away, Hugo. Ah, here we are. Isn't this nice? Before we get to actually talking about this dang thing, let's set a quick disclaimer. These criticisms could be made void by the time this costume is actually made. Colors could be changed, fabrics different, so for now, just take this as a criticism of the model on screen. Much less the actual costume to come. So off the bat, I have to address something that's kind of been bothering me about all of Tomathan Holland's suits. Let me show you what I mean by showing you some more work from Hugo. So here we have most of Spider-Man's suits from the MCU, omitting the Iron Spider and the Stealth suit, but they're all included in this conversation since they have the same issue. Have you noticed it yet? Maybe try to think about it. Well, I tell you about today's sponsor, the Ridge Wallet. The Wallet has built-in RFID protection to protect people from stealing your credit card info as they walk by. This thing is sleek and compact. It holds up to 12 different cards, has a cash strap on the back, and a very useful notch for getting your cards instantly whenever you need them.  The Ridge key case is just as cleverly designed. You've also got that same notch that you can use on the Wallet to help you get your keys instantly. It also has this little spring mechanism that pushes your keys up towards the front so they're not wiggling back and forth in your pocket. It's also got a helpful little hook on top, so if you want to slide your car keys or garage opener or whatever onto it using a carabiner, you slide that right in and there it goes. These Wallets come in over 30 different colors and they have landfills and landfills worth of five-star reviews. These would be the perfect gifts for your relatives for this Christmas and if you use my link on screen, you can get up to 40% off up until December 22nd. That is December 22nd using my link to get up to 40% off. I want to say thank you so much to Ridge Wallets for sponsoring this video and of course, let's finally get back to it. All but one of Peter's suits have a different set of lenses. I'm not complaining about how the standard MCU lenses are formatted. I think they're absolutely stellar. They have a nice shape. They're pretty round and they're well sized to fit Tom's head. But I mean, it would have been nice to ask for a little bit of, you know, variancy between each mask. Like, even the stealth suit has the same lenses and they didn't even have access to any of Peter's suits while they were making the damn thing. Plus, this thing is supposed to be a disguise. You're not supposed to be able to tell it's Spider-Man, but the lenses are exactly the same. I'm not saying these two need to have different lenses, but some variety every now and then would be nice. It's kind of odd how much the MCU recycles old elements from Tom's suits into the next ones. I kind of like it as it gives Tom a sense of trackable growth in between outfits. For example, the web patterns on Tom's suits has not changed much. They drew one Spider-Man web pattern and kept it almost identical all the way from the homecoming suit to the far from home suit and then this suit. I feel kind of flicked about the carrying over elements, but I just wanted to address that they're there. Like, they even carried over the lines from the black portions of the last suit onto this one. I'm conflicted about them. Like, do I think they're overly complex for no reason? Yes. But, like, they weren't that visible. Hell, people weren't even sure if this suit had lines on it at all at the first place. Plus, it doesn't really matter much to me since the blue on this suit is actually shiny this time. The suits in the past have had some sort of degree of shine to them, but never this much. This blue fabric is shiny as hell, and I know some people might be turned off by the shine, but it unironically makes the suit more comic accurate. The way Spider-Man is shaded in the comics gives a black undertone to his blue portions of the costume, giving his muscles more definition. There's no way to replicate this comic book shading without just outright putting it on the costume, but using shinier fabrics makes it look more realistic. Even I replicate this technique in my own costumes. Alright, let's finally talk about these logos. They are good. I have nothing bad to say about them. They are harmlessly modernized with small separations between these different parts of the Spider emblem. Also, apparently to some promo art, the front logo could be bronze. I really hope that is not the case. That would clash really hard with everything else in the costume. But now that we're talking about emblems, there's something I have to confess. The back logo looks amazing, and I think it fits into the back of the costume very well. I still think this suit missed out on having a major chance to make this suit the most undebatably comic accurate by giving it the comic, classic, round back logo. I don't want anyone to think that I'm hating on the back logo of this current suit. I like it, okay? I like it. It takes up a rounder space on his back to good shape. The logo itself is very good looking, but I do think a classic round back logo would have really blown this suit out of the water for me. And the soles on this suit are red, apparently, and I like it because that's comic accurate, and it's cool. Anyway, that's it. That's all I have to say about this design-wise. It's pretty apparent that this costume is the most accurate Spider-Man costume ever put into anything. I don't think an argument about this can even exist anymore, since this costume essentially captures all of the elements of the suit from the comics and even takes faithful liberties to get there, like with the blue shiny fabric. But there's still a bit of a lingering question in my mind. How is this costume going to change when it's made into the real thing? As far as I know, there's only one circumstance that we can reference in terms of the MCU making a CGI costume and then making a real thing, and that's the Civil War to Homecoming suit. I've seen some people say that the Stark suit looks darker in its appearance in Civil War than it does in Homecoming, but now that I'm looking at photos of the costume, I think it might just be the way Homecoming was shot that makes this costume look much brighter in comparison to how it looked in Civil War. They'll probably use the same fabric they've been using for the Stark suit and the far-from-home suit for the red portions, and then a shiny blue fabric for the blue portions. I kind of hope they changed the shade of blue, though. Part of me is really craving for a more cobalt blue as opposed to a light blue on this costume, but I still think the lighter blue is pretty cool, too. But that's it after that. This is the most comic-accurate cinematic Spider-Man costume ever made as of right now. But just for shits and giggles sake, I'm gonna compare the top three most accurate costumes against each other and tell you which ones, I believe, are more accurate than the others. I'm also going to be omitting the amazing Spider-Man 1 and the Spider-Man Homecoming Stark suit from this debate as those costumes are pretty much redesigns that heavily inspire themselves from the classic suit. But if you really want my opinion, obviously the amazing Spider-Man 1 suit is the least accurate and the Stark suit is more accurate than the Tasm 1 suit. That doesn't mean I dislike those costumes. I still love the Tasm 1 suit even if it doesn't look at all like the original. So in first place is obviously the No Way Home Classic suit, but you just watched a video about it, so you know that.  The second most accurate suit is where the contention comes up for me. I know the really easy answer to this question would be the Tasm 2 suit and my house wouldn't be burnt to the ground, but I wouldn't be able to sleep at night if I just called it a day at that. I think the Ramey suit is more accurate. Let me explain myself. The Ramey suit has a more pointed belt, a big back logo that covers almost all of his back horizontally and not just vertically. The red is brighter and even if the blue is dark at times, the blue has been dark on Spider-Man before. The Tasm 2 suit has a less consistently bright red fabric, long logos that are kind of awkward, and a less pointed belt than the original. I also think that for how large the lenses are, there's not really a lot of bordering on them either. Like even back in the day when Spidey upgraded to bigger lenses, his lenses would have thicker borders as well. At least for the Ramey suit, it makes sense for the lenses to not have thicker borders since they're that small. Honestly, I could see some people pointing to the silver web as an immediate disqualification for the Ramey suit's accuracy, but for me that's not enough to put it over the Tasm 2 suit. Since the web pattern on the Ramey suit is evenly spaced out and much more broad than the Tasm 2 suit, which reminds me of John Ramita's seniors art of the character. Due to Tasm 2's darker fabrics, odd proportions, less lens bordering, and weirder logos, I have to put the Ramey suit above it. Please don't blow up my hat. In all honesty, I think we had a pretty close real-life adaptation of the Spidey suit for a long time. I just think the silver webbing put a lot of people off and when they saw Andrew's darker webbing, they immediately flocked to calling this accurate while ignoring the odd proportions on this outfit. But that doesn't really matter anymore because Tom's costume is blown everyone else's out of the water. Tom has done it. He is in the most comic accurate suit, and let's just hope that the character under the mask can follow suit. Uhhh, really wish that Tom didn't have to meet up with Toby and Andrew while he was wearing the integrated suit.  Like, he looks the least like Spider-Man there. That's cringe. Like I would have preferred him staying in the Far From Home outfit. That one is way better. Also, the series is over until they come out with a new costume. That's an adaptation of another costume. Unless you guys want me to go over the Far From Home suit, but that one doesn't really have any comic ties to it, but I'll talk about it. I'll talk about it if you tell me to talk about it. I'll see you all next time.


Actually, what I'm going to do in the few minutes that I have, and please shout if I go beyond my time, is just to go back actually to some intuitions that I got when I was doing some research in Lebanon by the end of 2014, beginning in 2015. I was doing research actually on the evolving needs assessment techniques that international organization had to assess the needs for assistance and protection for Syrian refugees in the Baker Valley and in the north of Lebanon. And I was also looking at the shift from in-kind to cash-based assistance. And as an economist, I was shocked somehow by the fact that what I could see, and especially the perceptions of the crisis as I could understand it from the host communities, was completely different from anything I had heard while doing my master degree in economics 20 years before. And getting into the world of what Neil actually told us, the world of what are the main economic models and economic theories on migration. And this gap between theories and perceptions and reality in Lebanon intrigued me and pushed me to try to put together a few ideas that I will share with you now. But let me say that this is work in progress, so this is why I have my power point. But it's also because it's not yet, I'm very much looking forward to exchanges, inputs and discussions. And I have to say that I'm not an expert of migration and I recognize in the room a few experts of migration, so I feel a bit humbled. And again, look forward to your inputs. So let's say the red thread or the logic of my presentation is to say that there is a gap between the reality of the Syrian refugee crisis in Lebanon and some of the mainstream theories on migration. And I see that there is a similar gap between mainstream policy discourses, as we heard it in New York at the General Assembly last week, and how basically voters in host countries understand, perceive the crisis and react accordingly. And I think this is a very interesting kind of parallelism in gaps and discrepancies. And my main conclusion is that through looking at costs and benefits, we can also understand that if the theory tells us that migration like trade is not a zero sum game, then there is ample room actually to tax benefits and have a much more generous redistributive policies in order to compensate for losses and for adaptation. So let's start with Lebanon. I don't know if it's an archetypical forced migration crisis, but it's kind of an extreme one. Let me give you to start with a few elements that you certainly know, but in less than two years you had about 1.2 million Syrians refugees entering Lebanon, accounting for arguably more than 25% of the total population. And actually Lebanon maintained an open border policy for at least two and a half, three years. It was changed by the end of 2014. They maintained a no camps policy, which means that the refugees were directly living within host communities, especially in urban and semi-urban areas. And just to give you one example, it's had as a result a huge hike in rental prices, especially in poorer quarter, where within a year and a half or so, you had an increase by 44% of average rents. So I was looking at this yearly vulnerability assessments that have been done for Syrian refugees, so-called VASIR, Vulnerability Assessment of Syrian Refugees, 2014, 2013, 2014. In 2013, what was interesting is that out of the sample, they found out that the majority of refugees said our primary source of livelihood is the ability to work and overwhelming majority in the informal sector. So wages actually, well income in the informal sector was the major source of livelihood followed then by remittances and receiving aid. Next the year that followed, the picture changed a bit in the assessment done for 2014. One of the major constraints for refugees was security and mobility, mainly because of violent reactions and resentment from host communities who were extremely generous in 2011, 2012, party 2014, but as the crisis became protracted, then the situation changed and some refugees reported not being able to move to bring their children to school or to go to work because of mobility constraints. And this, I think, is important. We are in a context with a largely dysfunctional sectarian state and where public service, if we can call it public service, but essential service delivery is weak and actually raises a lot of issue which I will come back later on when we are thinking on how to envisage redistributive policies, how to envisage social protection both for the host communities and the refugees in a protracted crisis situation. So thanks to Neil before I won't spend much time on the economic migration theories. As he very well said, the basic theories which are quite old by now focus mainly on pull and push factors. But the main issue here is that migrants are supposed to behave rationally, to make cost-benefit analysis, look at net outcome, and then decide about migratory patterns based on this cost-benefit analysis. At the macro level, the interesting thing for me is that the focus was to start with mainly on wage differentials between different labor markets and also labor market regulation. But the new economics of migration, especially since the 1980s, brought to the fore is to look also a bit more at structural factors, at markets, and to consider household as a unit of production and consumption and to see what kind of strategies and portfolio of risk management households take, including migratory patterns of some of the members of the household members. And for those of you who know for instance Somalia and Somaliland, this is clearly a strategy that has been very much present in the strategies of Somali households in terms of how to get access to a range of income options and portfolio of risk, managing risks that would actually reduce vulnerability. So I won't go into that. So mainstream economic models show that migration is a win-win. And the question is, is it really and if so, for whom? Indeed, migration is seen as an engine of poverty alleviation, growth and development. And I think this is very much also the discourse that we heard last week at the UN General Assembly. And that's gaps in earnings of production factors, mainly labor, relates to marginal factor productivity differentials, wage differences, but also including technological aspects, technology and physical capital associated with the productivity of workers. So basically migration improves the efficiency worldwide of factor use. The disconnect between this literature on migration and forced migration and actually the literature, the gray literature that I have seen for instance in Lebanon to try to grasp the impact of the Syrian crisis on the Lebanese economy is that the focus of the gray literature and some of the academic literature as well is on needs, costs and the impact of aid on vulnerability and livelihood of refugees. And I looked a bit at the literature looking at the situation in Pakistan or Kenya with also projected refugee, hosting refugee situations. And the literature has the same bias on costs. The assumption is that there is a negative impact of massive influx of refugees, migrants in those countries on the labor market with drops on remuneration for unskilled or low-skilled labor, that there is a negative impact in terms of price hikes on essential goods and services, that there is a pressure on public services with the deterioration of access to public services for host population, and that there is also pressure on the environment with environmental degradation and so forth. Yet the question that I never found in the literature is actually who is benefiting from all these changes. Higher price, higher rental prices obviously is a boon for those owning property and houses and renting apartments or land for informal tented settlements. Lower labor costs is a boon for employers who can then reduce labor costs to produce and market goods and services. And I think there is a lack of focus on those aspects. And you may know especially the migration experts and refugee experts among yourselves more about that, but I just found a few studies like a study on the Dada refugee camp which looked at the situation for 2010. And that found out that actually the income brought to the region where the Dada refugee camp is located on the coast of Kenya close to Somalia would amount to an increase of 25% of the provincial GDP. And that there are more evidence also of an increase in jobs related to the Dada refugee camp for the local job market about 1200 in the case of Dada for 2010. So for the case of Lebanon, indeed when we hear that most of the at least in the Vazir 2013 the majority of refugees have income from the draw income from the informal labor market. This means that indeed this has a huge impact on wages in the wages because of this increase in labor supply. And the daily remuneration for construction workers, for petty traders, for agricultural workers was cut by more than half. Just to give you one example, daily remuneration for agricultural workers in the Bekavali has been cut between 2012 and 2014 from $15 a day to $6 a day. But there has been ample evidence and reporting also of deterioration for domestic workers, female in particular, who are doing in average 40% less income than men. And deterioration also in the situation of Lebanese sex workers. So you can see that this has a wide ranging impact indeed with as a result a high level of resentment among the youth, unemployed and poor Lebanese within host communities. So the result has been actually a big pressure on the government of Lebanon first to close the border. Second to prevent workers, to prevent Syrian refugees from accessing the labor market from opening shops and so forth with an entering frustration from breadwinners in Syrian refugee families with regards to the fact that the result was higher dependency on foreign aid and shrinking foreign aid. So again, a few studies on the benefits money on the cost. The World Bank did a big study on the overall impact of the crisis on the Lebanese economy saying this costs Lebanon at least two or 3% of GDP every year. And actually no analysis of the impact of increasing demand. Knowing that refugees may have brought just during the first year about over $100 million in cash and that cash and food voucher program injected over 800 million in the economy in 2013-14. And with this system there is more than 400 shops that are involved in the food voucher program. There are banks, Lebanese banks involved in the cash distribution, etc. So for me as an economist it's clear that there are much greater profit margins in the sector where wages fell by 50% and that landowner and house owners benefited from higher rents, basically higher return for capital, lower return on low-skill labor. So migration can be seen not as a win-win but as a win-lose at least in the short run and if we look at distributional impact. And for that reason immigrants serve as scapegoats to blame for unemployment or lower wages, insecurity and so forth. Yes, the host country benefits from an influx of resources, of skills, of foreign aid. And the issue here for me is that looking at the benefits of such an influx the question is how can we actually tax those benefits? Compliment as need be those tax that the host state is able to draw with foreign aid and then make sure that this is put into good use to compensate losers and to also pay for adaptation. And I would argue that it's just like a freer trade. We know that free trade creates winners and losers. I think that the supporters of Donald Trump in Michigan and elsewhere have very well understood what is the impact of freer trade with China for them and their reaction is quite clear. The question is again that the losers are not compensated whatsoever and there is not enough effort being put into funding, education, vocational training and the rest of it in order for low-skill labor to adapt and come back to let's say get greater skills for adaptation. So my conclusion is that if the overall macro impact is not a zero sum game for trade as for migration as we hear again and again then we can posit that we can simply tax part of the gains to compensate for the losses. And then I was thinking how can we do that in Lebanon? And I must say that it's a huge challenge because of the sectarian nature of the provision of social protection and assistance and it's also a challenge because maybe the most functional arm of the Lebanese state is designated as a terrorist organization and as long as we have and especially major donors have counterterrorism measures which prevent to engage with the Lebanese state and especially with Hezbollah not to name it then we have a huge problem in trying to figure out how to set up a system which is redistributive not in the sense of patronage politics but which is redistributive in the sense of compensating for losses. So option for Lebanon and this is working progress better document the cost but also the benefits on the whole state and communities focus simultaneously on the likelihood of Syrian and Lebanese vulnerable people and design and face out the cash assistance program for Syrian consistent with social protection system for the Lebanese poor and increased taxation and aid in order to have stronger and more resources for compensation. A question which is open which we can discuss is to what extent should Lebanon introduce much stricter labor regulation to try to reduce options on the informal market and to enforce labor laws and regulations there are pros and cons it's a very important topic and then to improve the channels for remittances that should be safer and cheaper. Okay so as I say it's working progress and I really look forward to the discussion with you and to get also feedbacks on that on these reflections. Thank you.