Oh ho! "Professionals"
5 November 2007, 11:56 am. 13 Comments. Filed under Design, Rants, Web-related.
Navigation-wise, what is a menu? More specifically, is this a menu? As far as I can see, it provides a selection of available options. If you disable CSS, it's organised into a list of options. But oh no, for design elitists who favour solid, stubborn, Web 2.0-style designs and can't see anything else through their little eyes, menus must be organised in the same way as all the other "clean and simple" designs out there. By some commentators on this article I dugg, it's not a menu. Please enlighten me then, what's the new definition of a "menu"?
Is HTML/CSS coding then?
You have designers, front-enders and programmers. A designer shouldn't HTML, a front-ender shouldn't write code and a programmer shouldn't design. The reverse is also true, a programmer shouldn't need to worry about front-ending, a front-ender shouldn't be designing and a designer shouldn't write code.
Some people can combine 2 or 3, but that's rarely a good combination, or only a good combination in their mind and the minds of equally retarded peers. In conclusion, professionals specialize themselves and don't do things below (or above) their paycheck.
Ah, I see. No, that was sarcasm. I don't see. I don't see at all why programmers do not need to worry about how users at the front-end are going to use their software. Are you coding shit for your own back-end use? Would you be more happy hiring a programmer, a front-ender and a designer for a project, or would you like to hire someone who can do all of that just as well if not better than three specialists?
I'm sad. Because while an economist is a professional and a lawyer is a professional, I'm wanting to be an commercial (economics) lawyer. That's just wow, "only a good combination in [my] mind and the minds of equally retarded peers." I'm not really sad, cause I think I just quoted a retard.
Continuing on from the same person...
That said, the article in this Digg-post is neither advanced nor "coding" - it's HTML and CSS.. the basics, really, of anyone professional enough to bother working with professional people. The MVC-idea if you will, Model, View, Control. But most people here aren't professionals I suppose, so.. sorry for sounding "elitist" (not intended that way), but if you consider this example "advanced coding".. well.. you're not that experienced.
I agree with part of that. To me, it's not "advanced coding" either even though it may well be for some. But totally denying that HTML and CSS are "coding"... Well, what are they then? They're just... HTML and... CSS. Right.
And for all that time, I've been referring to HTML and CSS as coding! Well, since I'm neither a professional in design nor coding, I don't need to change my terms for an egghead of a "professional".
It's called recycling
1 September 2007, 12:46 pm. 14 Comments. Filed under Design.
I just love doing stupid things like this to make myself look stupid. I changed the colour scheme of Season's Epilogue to blue and purple. Ocean's Prologue to match it. So here we have another WordPress template.
All the coding and everything of the original design took four days, but changing the colour scheme took one night. It's just like the green-brown version of Version 16. Recycling is no longer just about the wider environment, but it saved my personal time resources. But if you know me, it's just pure laziness.
I'm not used to the blue version yet since I haven't spent as much time staring at it, but my sister likes the blue. Comments?
WordPress murdered my juice
28 August 2007, 2:56 pm. 24 Comments. Filed under Design, Site-related.
The way out of a design-block is to rant about a design-block on your blog, because I just finished my first WordPress template! It was the third design I said I was on the verge of scraping, but right after the rant post I changed the colour scheme and now it's complete... After three days.
So I finally get to open my virtually empty Resources section... After two months. It's only virtually empty because I have stacks of PHP tutorials sitting in the corner of my D drive.
Coding the template for WordPress sucked the juice out of my brain and I'm waiting for it to recover in 24 hours. Perhaps because it was a first attempt, but I thought it really did have the potential of driving an inexperienced sane person nuts, let alone a somewhat insane young lady like me. I had to do several peek-a-boos in the default WordPress theme and Han's How to write your own wordpress theme. But there's always differences between one coding/tutorial and your own template so that was... trouble.
Well, I'm satisfied with the design because I actually feel like using it for my site design. I guess if you could create a pre-made design that you think is good enough for your actual site, then it should be reasonably good enough for you to offer to visitors.
I'm going to see if working on my Statistics assignment will help recover my sweet brain juice. Critiques and error reports for the template (or anything on the entire site, really) is welcome.
