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maristuI have a new appreciation of web designers. Seriously. I *bow* to y'all. This stuff is incredibly hard. Not just the design part (although I spent the entire *day* trying to figure out a good color scheme for this damn coffee site that we're making as a demo), but also the technical part. Modesty aside, I'm quite well versed in programming languages. I've programmed in Assembly, Clipper, Cobol, C, C++, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Java. After the first three, they're all pretty much the same. Get yourself a nice reference card and you're all set to go.
And I *still* find myself stumped with HTML. Not the language, of course, that's pretty easy. The hard part is figuring out *how* people work with this not-very-friendly language to make such amazing things. For example, I thought that, to put a 1 pixel border on frames, you'd simply set the border style to solid and the border width to 1px.
Doesn't work.
Gah.
And that's just the beginning. Drop-down menus, forms, keeping straight what's ASP and what's JavaScript and what's HTML... So. Damn. Hard.
Deadline's tomorrow. Reminds me of a quote I like:
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams.
And I *still* find myself stumped with HTML. Not the language, of course, that's pretty easy. The hard part is figuring out *how* people work with this not-very-friendly language to make such amazing things. For example, I thought that, to put a 1 pixel border on frames, you'd simply set the border style to solid and the border width to 1px.
Doesn't work.
Gah.
And that's just the beginning. Drop-down menus, forms, keeping straight what's ASP and what's JavaScript and what's HTML... So. Damn. Hard.
Deadline's tomorrow. Reminds me of a quote I like:
"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams.
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on 2003-03-25 02:14 pm (UTC)Depending on the browser you're using, the html/style you're writing could be exactly correct; the browser just may not support it. I'm dealing with backward compatibility to 4.78, which it seems supports next to nothing.
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on 2003-03-26 06:03 am (UTC)One of my favourite quotes in the whole world is the entire 'How to Fly' entry from the Guide. *grins and giggles*