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Post by Comrade itman496 on Nov 19, 2009 20:44:49 GMT -5
Yeah, I was hanging out in the tech office, where I usually hang out 1st and 2nd period, and then Mr. Glowaki (the superintendent) came in and asked Mr. Z (the tech guy at the school who I am good friends with) who he had selected to help design the school website. He said he picked me, and I was like 'wtf?' and as it turns out, the school is HIRING me, as in, WITH PAY, to help design a new school website with adobe Dreamweaver.
The current site is boreing, and the school just got a huge grant for 95000 dollars, so they have lots of extra cash, and yeah. I just can't believe this is happening! I've always wanted to design a website and get paid for it XD
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Nov 20, 2009 0:16:10 GMT -5
Ew, Dreamweaver. At least it'll let you work with code straight up, I'd just copypaste in from Notepad++ XD.
I need to make a portfolio already, I'm one class off from a web development certificate and no real job experience. Fff.
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Nov 20, 2009 6:14:47 GMT -5
well, I'd do notepad++ too, but I don't know html or php or any of that just yet XD ^^;
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Post by Comrade Bluey Nomface on Nov 20, 2009 12:56:33 GMT -5
Hah, you're lucky. The our school website doesn't even work all that well XD It takes like, 2 hours to load!
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Nov 20, 2009 16:23:19 GMT -5
that stinks ^^;
and I am just starting now ^^ now to learn how to screw around in dreamweaver
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Post by Comrade Bluey Nomface on Nov 21, 2009 3:23:50 GMT -5
LOL XD
The other problem is that our ENGLISH HOMEWORK is on the school website! So none of us do our homework because we can't be bothered waiting for the website to load XD
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Nov 21, 2009 11:17:19 GMT -5
yeah, thats the other thing they are trying to fix XD
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Nov 22, 2009 0:12:45 GMT -5
Watch out for Dreamweaver's love of fixed width. With the wide size range of displays these days, fixed width for anything except MAYBE a menu is just a bad bad bad idea. You don't want horizontal scrolling (horizontal scrolling is one of the biggest user-bail-inducing experiences, imo), but you don't want postage stamp on big screens either.
And always test in a screenreader and/or text browser and at least IE 6/7/8, Firefox, Chrome or Safari (they're both webkit, so yeah), and Opera. Trust me ;p.
(Also, when you're busy hating the universe and all of earlier IE's bugs? Conditional comments. They will save your SOUL.)
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Nov 22, 2009 2:16:16 GMT -5
is there a way to make it variable?
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Post by Comrade Tilly on Nov 24, 2009 0:50:06 GMT -5
Yes, by poking the actual code instead of the WYSIWYG editor (which is pants). How depends on what exactly you want for a layout. ems and percents are a Good Thing unless you absolutely need fixed pixels for some reason (things like borders usually qualify). CSSplay and other sites like it have some pretty good examples of making things stretch and fit without having to use tables for layout (EVIL BAD). Just don't use any of the commercial examples without donating ;p. |
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Post by Comrade itman496 on Nov 24, 2009 6:26:04 GMT -5
XD okay, I'll keep that in mind ^^
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