Wednesday, July 2, 2008 Revelation posted at 10:55 AM Did I ever tell you I hate web design? It's probably obvious to those of you who've noticed I never change my blog template. Most designers change their templates all the time, trying new things. I've mentioned several times that I want to make some changes, but for the most part I've left it alone...not because I think it's perfect like it is, but because I dread going into the code. It's horribly out of date--it uses tables, for goodness' sake--and if I ever get into a serious redesign, I know I'm going to want to start over from scratch. I'm not the type of person who can just use a WYSIWYG editor and be content. I have to mess with the underpinnings, make them the best that I know they can be. That perfectionism makes me despise web design, because nothing is ever perfect. What works in one browser doesn't work in another. I can't always do what I want, either because I lack the coding ability, because it's unsupported by major browsers, or because it's simply impossible with the tools we currently have. To get certain effects I have to cheat and then be annoyed that the site doesn't live up to standards. I use JavaScript to do certain things, for example, and I just have to hope that the majority of site visitors won't have it disabled. There are so many factors to take into account, when all I really want to do is make a nice, pretty design. Despite all this, for some inexplicable reason I keep taking on web design projects. What's wrong with me? Labels: design, web [ comments (0) ]         Thursday, May 17, 2007 The new Geoshitties posted at 1:23 AM MySpace doesn't like its profile pages to be legible, so it does everything it possibly can to ensure that they're not. Right now I'm trying to use the new editor to add a nifty Live Free or Die Hard theme to my profile, but the theme isn't set up right. It puts black text on top of a black background! And when I try to use the editor to fix it, it destroys other parts of the code. I keep going around and around with it and it's driving me crazy! I'm way too much of a perfectionist for MySpace ;P Labels: design, myspace, web [ comments (1) ]

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