throzen
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throzen got a reaction from dantiger88 in Woohoo!A tree didn't fall on my car today while driving into work in a storm period. Woohoo!
(...was that insensitive?)
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throzen got a reaction from Lucas Kane in Advice please..... Job interviewI know you wouldn't be, but don't be all cliché-esque in your responses. For example, if they ask "What's your biggest weakness?", obviously don't say "I just work too damn hard for my own good!", with some cheesy grin they'd want to slap off your face. Honesty will get you through, I've found. In the last interview I got for my web designer job, I told the interviewer/boss that, again referring to such question about weaknesses, that my perfectionism often impedes my progress and my Javascript was ****e, but always improving. Take your time to consider their responses and try to think one-sentence ahead, so you've always got something lined up. Remember - they've asked you to come in to meet you, a person, a human, learn your character and personality, not because they want to hear you repeat what skills they've seen on your C.V. Just be yourself, honestly, it'll work. Be confident - they want to buy you, so sell who you really are, and don't fidget!
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no i did not hear about it
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throzen got a reaction from BrowserBugs in Macaw - the responsive tool for "today's designer"I'd prefer to stick to archaic methods. If I used as many tools and script generators as others do, or as some employers have encouraged me to (sigh), I wouldn't be true to my nature, I guess, heh.
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throzen got a reaction from Ashlee0016 in CSS MasteryI've found that w3schools is more like a reference source, as opposed to an online school. You check it when you've forgotten how to write something, or what's compatible, and so forth. I certainly wouldn't use it as a means of learning how to code, there's no logic to the order of their tutorials or how code intertwines with one-another.
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throzen reacted to MMMedia in Urgent Advice For My FutureExactly.
What a degree shows (and to a lesser extend proves) to me as an employer is that the candidate has applied themselves. The assumption is a certain level of discipline and aptitude, particularly in the case of a 1st. I also like core subjects such as maths and languages, to me they are worth more. My personal opinion of course.
Now it must be noted that outside of Law, Medical and Engineering (or similar degree-led professions) I don't hold degrees in much high-regard. I left school at 17 and yet I've never struggled; I've been a employer, hirer or firer since I was in my early 20's. A degree is a way in for people whore aren't like me and took a different path. Neither is particularly right or wrong of course, however most of the people hiring in my experience are the ones without degrees and have a mix of experience, drive and raw talent/capacity.
That said, I appreciate certain professions are degree-led and it's a requirement to even get started.
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throzen reacted to Jack in Moan, Grumble, Whinge...Ah man, that's sh*t. Keep learning and keep job hunting, I guess that's all you can do.
And get drunk
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throzen got a reaction from Weedy101 in help with my css buttonsHi alisiaro. There are quite a few problems with your code leading to you not achieving the desired effect. I've written up a very quick solution to what you asked for in the screenshot you attached, at least with the header and the buttons (nothing past there though):
<html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; } #container { border: 1px solid #000; width: 607px; height:987px; padding: 10px 20px 10px 20px; margin: 20px auto 20px auto; } #header { border-radius: 10px; float: left; width: 100%; height: 150px; background: red; } #buttons_row { float: left; margin: 10px 0px 0px 0px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } .button{ background: grey; display: inline-block height: 130px; width: 130px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header">header</div> <div id="buttons_row"> <div class="button">Main page</div> <div class="button">Our menu</div> <div class="button">Services</div> <div class="button">Contacts</div> </div> </div> </body> </html> Here are a few things to learn from this:
- I've kept the height property in your #container, but it's not really necessary - the content will determine the height, not the container. I'd remove it.
- The CSS float (e.g. float: left;) is the best way to stack elements underneath each other.
- By applying 'text-align: center' to the #buttons_row, and then 'display: inline-block' to the .button divs, you can centre each button inside the parent. Just to save you time figuring this out.
- I would study HTML5, so you don't use <div>'s for all your elements. I've retained your HTML code, but research HTML5, so your header becomes <header>, buttons_row becomes a <section> and so forth.
There are quite a few more things, but this should set you on the right course. Good luck.
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throzen reacted to rbrtsmith in Question about Web developmentYou typically get designers, Front end Devs and back-end devs. I'd go with what you enjoy to be honest, you might just be more comfortable with front end right now as you have a little more experience with it.
Here are some essential things you'll need to know for a front end dev:
HTML CSS + Responsive implementation JavaScript + jQuery framework And here are some less important but could be considered essential skills if you wanna become a more senior front end developer
CSS preprocessors such as SASS and LESS Front end framework i.e. (Bootstrap) Version control (Git) Automated task running (Grunt being the best I've come across) Experience in command line for using GIT and SSH. FTP will rarely be used by a professional web developer, it's slow! Emmet - formerly zen coding, allows you to write html much faster. Basic Photoshop (or graphic editor) skills to create image sprites and so on. Good knowledge of performance - what affects page load time. JS MV*C frameworks, Backbone, Angular I've almost certainly missed some out there, but it gives you an idea of the fairly vast array of things you can learn to advance your front end skillset, The first list being a minimum to get you a junior role. Any acronyms there you don't understand or have never heard of Google will give you a great insight into them
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throzen reacted to cibgraphics in Which CMS is better to Build websiteOK, your ego seems to be getting in your way. I never said that WordPress is great. If you look at the comments I actually mention that I hate it. I also mention that there are a lot of cms systems that are poorly written. You are so quick to disprove that you are trying to disprove the wrong points.
Let me try again in hopes you will and can understand.
WordPress bad.
CMS written bad most times.
But
CMS nessessary because not all clients want or need complex systems.
Get it?
These things are just tools man. Stop getting so worked up over everything. Not every project needs to be the scale you want them to. Just do what's right for the client, work hard/smart, and enjoy life.
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throzen reacted to Garbeth in Question about Web developmentthanks a lot for your advice.
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throzen got a reaction from Fuzzy Logic in Question about Web developmentHTML5 and CSS3, first. Normally you'd then be told to learn Javascript/jQuery, but I'd actually advise you to put that off and focus on responsive design afterwards, which falls under CSS3. Companies nowadays are super critical of mobile/tablet adapted websites, and I can assure that having strong knowledge and experience of responsive design will put you in better stead than some experience with Javascript/jQuery. Don't forget them though, of course.
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throzen got a reaction from Supafly in First Website Attempt - Feedback NeededHi Freddie. Your site looks good for a beginner's effort, much better than what I could churn out in your shoes. Here are my thoughts.
Firstly, your code. You've used mostly divs - a non-semantic attribute, to construct your sections as opposed to HTML5 tags. This is called 'vanilla coding' or 'vanilla HTML'. I'm not sure if your tutorials alerted you to modern HTML5 attributes, but I'd look into them - chiefly the <section>, <aside>, <article> and <footer> ones. Don't worry too much - I'm pretty sure my own site still uses a div instead of a footer and in other places, it's easy to lose track. I really need to change that, heh...
The '#999900' colour is a little off-putting and doesn't accurately reflect your creative design skills; it looks like the colour of a rotting pear if I'm honest, heh. If you've got Photoshop, crack it upon and just fiddle around with the colour palette, go for a more upbeat, conservative colour.
I'm guessing you haven't had time to look at JavaScript or jQuery just yet, which is absolutely fine, a site doesn't need it to work well. But when you do, it can transform your navigation function into something more fluid; right now, upon nav link click, it darts to the corresponding section further down, whereas with a very simple jQuery script (no more than 2-3 lines), it can be smoother, more interactive and pleasing.
Lastly, and I don't mean to push you in any directions while you're learning, but I would strongly look at responsive design. It may sound daunting, but incorporating it with your current learning would be highly beneficial, as opposed to going back to it. It's just about using percentage widths and CSS media queries (Google that!) to adjust page elements to look nicer on different screen sizes.
It's an excellent effort for only some weeks work, you're definitely heading in the right direction. Hope my tips helped a bit.
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throzen got a reaction from richardmountain in browser compatibility toolsBrowser Stack (http://www.browserstack.com) is pretty good, although I don't think it's free. It's useful for rendering sites, live or on localhost, to ancient versions of IE (if you care to serve such users).
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With respect, APW states that he is getting back into web design, and given that he has noticed there is a lot for him to learn, I think backend development is a little out of his scope currently.
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throzen reacted to Mr Ben in What is the latest and best way to build a Website?How many years is a few years?
Dreamweaver is just a text editor with wysiwyg capabilities and FTP too. You can still use it, there are just a few more editors out now that there were I suppose. Try Sublime Text or Text Mate for example.
Wordpress is a CMS, not an editor. You can edit inside it but I wouldn't recommend it. You can use Dreamweaver to edit and create a custom theme or add functionality to it.
To do the above, you should be fairly competent at HTML, CSS, PHP and reading the Wordpress Codex looking for the correct API's
In terms of front end work, you may want to look at things like (apart from HTML and CSS) Javascript, Sass,and Grunt for example.
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throzen got a reaction from rbrtsmith in Start-up company vs well established companyTell me about it!
Thanks guys. I decided to turn down the interview (possibly foolish, I know), because I realistically don't see myself splitting away from my current company at its current development level. If I hated my job, I'd jump. But for now, I'll stay put.
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throzen got a reaction from danners2003 in First Website Attempt - Feedback NeededHi Freddie. Your site looks good for a beginner's effort, much better than what I could churn out in your shoes. Here are my thoughts.
Firstly, your code. You've used mostly divs - a non-semantic attribute, to construct your sections as opposed to HTML5 tags. This is called 'vanilla coding' or 'vanilla HTML'. I'm not sure if your tutorials alerted you to modern HTML5 attributes, but I'd look into them - chiefly the <section>, <aside>, <article> and <footer> ones. Don't worry too much - I'm pretty sure my own site still uses a div instead of a footer and in other places, it's easy to lose track. I really need to change that, heh...
The '#999900' colour is a little off-putting and doesn't accurately reflect your creative design skills; it looks like the colour of a rotting pear if I'm honest, heh. If you've got Photoshop, crack it upon and just fiddle around with the colour palette, go for a more upbeat, conservative colour.
I'm guessing you haven't had time to look at JavaScript or jQuery just yet, which is absolutely fine, a site doesn't need it to work well. But when you do, it can transform your navigation function into something more fluid; right now, upon nav link click, it darts to the corresponding section further down, whereas with a very simple jQuery script (no more than 2-3 lines), it can be smoother, more interactive and pleasing.
Lastly, and I don't mean to push you in any directions while you're learning, but I would strongly look at responsive design. It may sound daunting, but incorporating it with your current learning would be highly beneficial, as opposed to going back to it. It's just about using percentage widths and CSS media queries (Google that!) to adjust page elements to look nicer on different screen sizes.
It's an excellent effort for only some weeks work, you're definitely heading in the right direction. Hope my tips helped a bit.
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throzen got a reaction from luizarios in Which web design is better (or worse) ?I far prefer the second version, it makes better use of the space which is better for responsive design. Plus the second design appears to have some kind of navigation, whereas the first does not, which is always handy. Derp.
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throzen got a reaction from Trible in Help Needed With Responsive HTML Web PageHi Trish,
Modify the following code:
Modify the padding for #maincontent to this:
padding: 10px 0 0 10px; Modify the width for both span_1_of_2 divs to this:
width: 50%; Remove the following from the CSS of .col:
margin: 1% 0 1% 1.6%; Remove this from #right_div:
margin-left: 1%; That'll fix your problem. Also, in your HTML, you have this error:
<div id:="containerR" Remove the ':' and your div will align to the right as you desire. You'll need to weak the responsive styling to reflect the changes I've advised.
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throzen got a reaction from Weedy101 in Moan, Grumble, Whinge...The best way to combat that is to talk the guy up to management, sing his praises and push them to give him more jobs demanding high standard. Then when he can't deliver, because he just rips your work, he'll be shown for who he is. Muahaha.
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throzen got a reaction from TheUninvited in why br is not adding space?This is indeed the correct way to go. But if you're feeling lazy and insist on using line-breakers, then replace <br /> with just two <br>'s.
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throzen reacted to Nillervision in How to make reaponsiveBesides from conveting values to %, and adding mediaqueries you must also remember to insert a viewport meta tag in your html to prevent the devices default scaling of the content
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throzen got a reaction from Nillervision in How to make reaponsiveIdeally you need to plan a responsive site, rather than make a site as normal and then try to convert it. This is especially difficult since you've used pixel widths throughout the site; the most efficient responsive sites use a combination of max-width containers (in pixels) and then percentage widths for child elements.
Using your site as an example, the <section> container would be set to max-width: 1024px, and the <div class="banner"> inside it would be set to width: 100%. That way, <section> will always be 1024px until the browser size shrinks below 1024px, at which point the max-width is irrelevant and the 100% width kicks in.
Also, it's strongly recommended that you use CSS3 media-queries to control the behaviour of your HTML at certain browser widths and sizes, instead of relying on the original HTML and CSS layout to perform responsively. Designing a website to be responsive by default is the best way to go.
Here's a fairly decent introduction guide to media queries: http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/responsive-design-in-3-steps.
Hope that helps.
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throzen reacted to Jack in Returning from Handheld 2013I really enjoyed a lot of the talks, but yeh, I agree with the speakers on your bad list. I was glad it wasn't entirely around mobile design, I kinda thought it wouldn't be anyway, but it was cool how it involved the business side too. I enjoyed the talks about changing your process, the data visualisation stuff and Zeldmans was just all around good advice. I didn't mind Andy Clarke's talk, I took quite a lot from it.
The biggest issue I found with a lot of it was it all seemed to be very 'high budget' stuff they were showcasing. It's always hard to see how you could altar your own processes when it's like that. They're obviously talking about some projects that are easily over the 100k mark.
Apologies for the lack of cat stuffs, I was actually wearing cat socks (I think, might of been the day after though) but I must of forgot. I was a bit drunk by then, I'd been in the bar since just after 5:00.
