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a rainy thursday-- buffalo tomorrow!
May. 8th, 2003 09:36 amDave's sister emailed me and we arranged to go out for wings and beer when we get to buffalo. that'd be pretty sweet.
we're leaving tomorrow as soon as dave gets out of work, gets his ass back here, and gets me into the car. so i threw a bunch of clothes in to soak this morning and will hang them out tonight and hope they dry so i can take them-- otherwise i haven't got a thing to wear! we need to do laundry. but unlike last time, i'm not bringing home a million loads of laundry.
I'm doing a re-redesign of the company website. Instead of having it fixed-width and centered, the boss asked if we could make it wider, and left-justified. I poked around online and found that most people nowadays are doing 100% width, a little left-weighted but mostly fairly centered. So I'm doing a centered, 100%-width flexible page. Unfortunately, to make our logo resizable, I had to chop it into nearly 100 Photoshop "slices"-- fortunately Photoshop does the HTML automatically for you, and it's pretty darn good HTML. So our logo maintains its relative aspect widths etc. at anywhere from 400 pixels width to 1024, that I can test at least. I like it. It was just an insane amount of work.
Except that Dreamweaver keeps screwing around with the widths of my table cells. I don't know why it insists on being a bastard. I could kick its ass sometimes.
Though my HTML is hideous now. I mean, credit where credit's due, Photoshop and Dreamweaver and I have done as well as we can, but the fact remains that there are 100 table cells for the logo at the top, and another 150 for our contact info / copyright notice at the bottom, and that's just a cluttered page.
Still, it might keep our competitors at bay, instead of crawling our code to find our keywords and jump on them! (i noticed our biggest competitor-- by which i mean they're 100 times our size-- had recently added the one keyphrase our old website is optimized for to their meta-tags. So, they don't really know what they're doing, but they're checking us out.)
Anyhow. It's ugly, but there it is. At least I combed out the javascript into a separate file.
I am feeling better about my job, although my boss is driving me nuts. Dave and I were discussing our luck-- really we both are in great jobs right now. He gets to work with Macs all day long, his one true love-- and almost nobody does that, percentage-wise. And I'm learning how to be a webmaster, really truly-- and skills like that are generally well-paid in the industry. Webdesigners are a dime a dozen but they're still expensive. You can take your pick of thousands, but you're going to have to pay the one you choose pretty well, if you want anything halfway decent. And nowadays, when even the Quick-Stop has to have a professionally-designed website, there's a market for it.
I'm also going to try to learn how to do setup on the Apache server-- the guy whose job it is finally came out and told me he really wants nothing to do with the webserver. he set it up, that's all he knew how to do, and now he really would prefer never to look at it again. So if I need stuff changed, I'd better do it myself.
Dave assures me it's not _that_ hard, and he'll walk me through it... I'm thinking I have an old (very old) computer at home that maybe I could install Apache on at home and could use it to play around-- except that I'd need an Ethernet connection, which may not be possible. It's THAT old.
Oh well. We'll see.
A webdesigner who knows Apache is worth more than a webdesigner who only knows HTML.
I have no concrete plans for the future, I'm just kind of thinking, y'know? My resume is like six pages longer than it was. I'm going to make my coworker teach me PageMaker soon.
So maybe someday, when we've tired of paying $25 for a simple meal in a restaurant, the economy will pick up, and we can hightail it back out to Western New York so Dave can attend all his beloved Buffalo festivals and we can have an apartment four times the size of our current (beautiful) one for the same price, and I'll be able to afford a car.
Or whatever. Anyhow, I'm feeling good about this as my first job. I have been for a while but I don't generally get around to posting when it's to be pleased, not to whine.
All right, I'm going to go now and get things done so the boss can have time later to drive me nuts. :-p
we're leaving tomorrow as soon as dave gets out of work, gets his ass back here, and gets me into the car. so i threw a bunch of clothes in to soak this morning and will hang them out tonight and hope they dry so i can take them-- otherwise i haven't got a thing to wear! we need to do laundry. but unlike last time, i'm not bringing home a million loads of laundry.
I'm doing a re-redesign of the company website. Instead of having it fixed-width and centered, the boss asked if we could make it wider, and left-justified. I poked around online and found that most people nowadays are doing 100% width, a little left-weighted but mostly fairly centered. So I'm doing a centered, 100%-width flexible page. Unfortunately, to make our logo resizable, I had to chop it into nearly 100 Photoshop "slices"-- fortunately Photoshop does the HTML automatically for you, and it's pretty darn good HTML. So our logo maintains its relative aspect widths etc. at anywhere from 400 pixels width to 1024, that I can test at least. I like it. It was just an insane amount of work.
Except that Dreamweaver keeps screwing around with the widths of my table cells. I don't know why it insists on being a bastard. I could kick its ass sometimes.
Though my HTML is hideous now. I mean, credit where credit's due, Photoshop and Dreamweaver and I have done as well as we can, but the fact remains that there are 100 table cells for the logo at the top, and another 150 for our contact info / copyright notice at the bottom, and that's just a cluttered page.
Still, it might keep our competitors at bay, instead of crawling our code to find our keywords and jump on them! (i noticed our biggest competitor-- by which i mean they're 100 times our size-- had recently added the one keyphrase our old website is optimized for to their meta-tags. So, they don't really know what they're doing, but they're checking us out.)
Anyhow. It's ugly, but there it is. At least I combed out the javascript into a separate file.
I am feeling better about my job, although my boss is driving me nuts. Dave and I were discussing our luck-- really we both are in great jobs right now. He gets to work with Macs all day long, his one true love-- and almost nobody does that, percentage-wise. And I'm learning how to be a webmaster, really truly-- and skills like that are generally well-paid in the industry. Webdesigners are a dime a dozen but they're still expensive. You can take your pick of thousands, but you're going to have to pay the one you choose pretty well, if you want anything halfway decent. And nowadays, when even the Quick-Stop has to have a professionally-designed website, there's a market for it.
I'm also going to try to learn how to do setup on the Apache server-- the guy whose job it is finally came out and told me he really wants nothing to do with the webserver. he set it up, that's all he knew how to do, and now he really would prefer never to look at it again. So if I need stuff changed, I'd better do it myself.
Dave assures me it's not _that_ hard, and he'll walk me through it... I'm thinking I have an old (very old) computer at home that maybe I could install Apache on at home and could use it to play around-- except that I'd need an Ethernet connection, which may not be possible. It's THAT old.
Oh well. We'll see.
A webdesigner who knows Apache is worth more than a webdesigner who only knows HTML.
I have no concrete plans for the future, I'm just kind of thinking, y'know? My resume is like six pages longer than it was. I'm going to make my coworker teach me PageMaker soon.
So maybe someday, when we've tired of paying $25 for a simple meal in a restaurant, the economy will pick up, and we can hightail it back out to Western New York so Dave can attend all his beloved Buffalo festivals and we can have an apartment four times the size of our current (beautiful) one for the same price, and I'll be able to afford a car.
Or whatever. Anyhow, I'm feeling good about this as my first job. I have been for a while but I don't generally get around to posting when it's to be pleased, not to whine.
All right, I'm going to go now and get things done so the boss can have time later to drive me nuts. :-p
