to the pain
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brabble's excellent review of The Passion of The Mel Gibson.
Starting around 5pm today, I worked in earnest to develop a better understanding of CSS using Eric Meyer's book, aptly named Eric Meyer on CSS. I really like the structure of the book. It's divided up into 13 projects and Meyer has a very easy to follow, almost conversational manner. You get the sense that you could have a beer with him and cheerfully geek out on a human level. The book really isn't for people new to CSS, but for the ADD contingent who know some CSS, want to expand their repertoire, but don't want to actually read pages and pages of boring explanations, and would rather just be told:
1. Do this.
2. See how it made that happen?
3. Good, let's move on.
That is definitely me. It also seemed a good time to try out the much lauded Dreamweaver. My web development skills have grown this past year, mainly due to constant immersion in the field and having restricted access to fancier, automated tools because I work for a small company that can't afford them. Well, to be fair, I've never wanted to use the fancy, automated tools because it's very hard to be a snooty, elitist, power-mad bitch that way.
I've finally groked that using templates can speed up many dull tasks, and improve consistency. I'm really sheepish that I hadn't thought of doing this before. It's true the general design changes frequently and templates can't be used that much, BUT I've found some areas, particularly with graphics, where they are proving useful. Whoop. God bless layers.
Anyhow, I'm anxious to use more CSS because goddamn it's cool. It's nice to see widespread, consistent changes made with a few minor adjustments.
Learning is admirable. And I'm glad I finally took the time to do this. However, I wish I wasn't, you know, insane and had done the Adobe Framemaker stuff for class tomorrow instead. And worked on Dreamweaver/CSS tomorrow.
It's not that bad, really. Not like the Framemaker stuff is due tomorrow at 9am. This final project we're working on is meant to span two class periods. We're allowed to work on it at home and all class period tomorrow. However, if I only had a brain, I would have completed it by now, and that would have meant that class tomorrow would have been painless. I wouldn't have to worry that some demonic aspect of the software might fuck up something at the 11th hour.
Well, I'm working on it now. And as I've had 87 diet cokes, I'm not at all sleepy and considering just pushing through dawn. Hopefully I can just turn it in and come back home to die, peacefully in bed.
Also: muscular atrophy=bad. Going on 10 hours of ass in chair. Greenlake tomorrow. Rain or fucking shine.
brabble's excellent review of The Passion of The Mel Gibson. Starting around 5pm today, I worked in earnest to develop a better understanding of CSS using Eric Meyer's book, aptly named Eric Meyer on CSS. I really like the structure of the book. It's divided up into 13 projects and Meyer has a very easy to follow, almost conversational manner. You get the sense that you could have a beer with him and cheerfully geek out on a human level. The book really isn't for people new to CSS, but for the ADD contingent who know some CSS, want to expand their repertoire, but don't want to actually read pages and pages of boring explanations, and would rather just be told:
1. Do this.
2. See how it made that happen?
3. Good, let's move on.
That is definitely me. It also seemed a good time to try out the much lauded Dreamweaver. My web development skills have grown this past year, mainly due to constant immersion in the field and having restricted access to fancier, automated tools because I work for a small company that can't afford them. Well, to be fair, I've never wanted to use the fancy, automated tools because it's very hard to be a snooty, elitist, power-mad bitch that way.
I've finally groked that using templates can speed up many dull tasks, and improve consistency. I'm really sheepish that I hadn't thought of doing this before. It's true the general design changes frequently and templates can't be used that much, BUT I've found some areas, particularly with graphics, where they are proving useful. Whoop. God bless layers.
Anyhow, I'm anxious to use more CSS because goddamn it's cool. It's nice to see widespread, consistent changes made with a few minor adjustments.
Learning is admirable. And I'm glad I finally took the time to do this. However, I wish I wasn't, you know, insane and had done the Adobe Framemaker stuff for class tomorrow instead. And worked on Dreamweaver/CSS tomorrow.
It's not that bad, really. Not like the Framemaker stuff is due tomorrow at 9am. This final project we're working on is meant to span two class periods. We're allowed to work on it at home and all class period tomorrow. However, if I only had a brain, I would have completed it by now, and that would have meant that class tomorrow would have been painless. I wouldn't have to worry that some demonic aspect of the software might fuck up something at the 11th hour.
Well, I'm working on it now. And as I've had 87 diet cokes, I'm not at all sleepy and considering just pushing through dawn. Hopefully I can just turn it in and come back home to die, peacefully in bed.
Also: muscular atrophy=bad. Going on 10 hours of ass in chair. Greenlake tomorrow. Rain or fucking shine.
