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14/08/2006

On 14th August, Daniel started an Industrial Placement at
Fast Web Media. This placement will last for a year and will cover a number of web development skills.

07/06/2006
Daniel attained a 2.1 for his second year work at University. Some of this work can be seen in the porfolio section of this site.


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THE ONLINE PORTFOLIO OF DANIEL SWEENEY : PLACEMENT

about placement

I am currently on a placement at Fast Web Media. This company is a Total Sports Online ASA Company and deals with a number of different areas to do with online technology. The areas the company deal with are wide spread, they do Web Design, Web Development, Online Services, Web Hosting and SEO and Online Marketing.

The company also deals with PR and TV production which you can see and find out about from there website.


Fast Web Media is an up and coming company in all aspects of work that the company deals with, it has expanded rapidly over recent years and will continue to do so over the next few years. The company deals with some major companies such as Carling, Itchy, and The Footballers Writers Association amongst a number of others.

It also runs the MegaSoccer website, which is the Web's first football-specific search engine, with over 1.5 million documents relating to soccer, and the highly successful 4TheGame website, which has information on all teams from the English and Scottish leagues.


Throughout my time on the placement I will be working on both the larger sites and smaller sites that Fast Web Media work on. I look after all aspects of the Lets Stay UK Franchise, whether it be a minor change in the backend database or the production of a new franchise website.

Another major project I have worked on was to create the CSS file for the new Carling website. I have also produced a number of pages and tasks within this site and is the site I have worked on the most so far.

I believe the time I have spent so far on this placement has been succesful and will continue to be successful. I feel I have learnt many new skills whilst on this placement, both academically and personally. I believe my degree will be worth more with the industrial experience I have gained and believe it will help me immensely with my final year at University and my final project I have to complete. I would recommend to anyone who has the the option of industrial experience to take it as I believe it would increase their knowledge of both subject matter and personal skills.