Dan has been a learner at St John’s College for 4 years. He is one of our Printshop users and as part of his learning plan, has recently been tasked with keeping the Inklusion website (as pictured below) up to date. To enable him to carry this out, the Printshop team have been supporting him to learn the data input skills and steps of the process involved. With the ever-growing demand from employers for computer skills, data input is a vital skill that is in universally high demand in the workplace.
The funding to build the site was kindly provided by The Ian Karten Charitable Trust two years ago. We always aspire to equip our learners with the knowledge and skills they need to compete for jobs when they leave St. John’s, and our Karten Centre is a vital element of our careers support programme
Dan began with taking and uploading images to our Inklusion website. With support, he took photographs of new products in our range, which includes mugs, t-shirts, bags, and fine art prints. He then used Adobe Photoshop to reduce the size of each image from 300 dpi to 72dpi (dots per inch), which is an important step to promote faster loading speed on the website. Dan then removed the image’s background and made it transparent which resulted in a ‘web-ready’ .png file, which will have a crisp, clean appearance on the website. He then uploaded the web-ready image to the Media Library of our website’s admin section (picture shows Dan working), and from there, it can be picked up on the new product page.
The next step was for Dan to input the essential data for items in our online shop which included: description of the product; name of the artist that made it; price; number held in stock; and product category. Once all the details are logged and published on the site, his final task is to double check to confirm all the details are correct and visible to customers.
Dan also makes full use of the equipment and is very keen on all aspects of design and production.
Below are images of some of the items he has made and posted onto the site:
Dan has become very proficient in this and enjoys the responsibility of this important task which is playing a key role in his learning and development at St John’s College.
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