There's a reason why you pay
28 January 2008, 6:47 pm. 13 Comments. Filed under Design, Miscellaneous, Rants, Work.
Why do you pay for a design when you want to dictate every single detail of the design yourself?
So she gave me minuscule design details at the beginning, and now she's trying to change every single element of it. The colour scheme I picked had maroon, brown and cream, which fitted closer to the description she gave me. In the last email she changed it to maroon, brown, saturated orange and really light saturated blue. I may have brown, orange and blue put together in the current site design but trust me, those colours do not look right on her design.
But what can you do? Clients are always right. I should give her the PSD and she can do all the rest of it. It pains me to output something so aesthetically wrong in every way.
On another note, about that arm in the previous post, I'm not going to post the face just yet because another gay guy like Xuan would come along and drool all over the computer at him.
Xuan: Holy shit, Ryl-Ryl, is that your boyfrienddd? *taunts* He's a cutie. Very cute, in fact ... (The ellipsis sounds so freaky.)
Me: Take your eyes off him. He's not your next target kk?
Xuan: ...DAMNIT! Foiled again...
He's still cute though. Don'ttt denyyy ittt.
Maybe someday when I get my Photographs page up. And I'm still fuming over the hideous design. Grr!
Hint: Blonde and blue eyes. Lol. 
Feeel the ooomph!
8 November 2007, 7:50 pm. 51 Comments. Filed under Design, Site-related.
Version 19. Ta-da.
Feedback first. And then I'll get to work on the rest of the pages.
PHP and CSS should make changing layouts easy right? Unfortunately, it's not the way I do things. I'll proofread all my pages and replace the "obsolete coding" so... Here's launching the new layout in stages.
Love it? Hate it? Think it needs more touching up here and there? Go on. You have been cordially invited to speak up.
Updates
You guys are surely nit-picky and harsh with your criticisms. It's okay, I can handle it cause I asked for it. *bangs head on wall* Keep it coming. You guys merely pricked my poor self-esteem. So here's me doing some changes:
- Lene:
reduce font-size - Vera:
update verification code thingie - Vera and Amanda::
widen content areaand now it's lost the cuteness
- Vera:
darken background colour - Leila:
change default gravatar
Look at all the comments from Vera you cruel thing. Hope the design-change won't discourage you people from visiting.
I won't touch the graphical parts of the header because I still love the tree, title and tabs even though you might not. 
Thanks!
(If the design looks funny here and there, don't forget Ctrl+F5. And some of you must have very bright screen colours.)
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".
