Back40Design
Week 4
I started doing the cut-up for a client's site. The hardest thing so far isn't really the cutting-up part (we're taught that in class), but how to style it while using someone else's code.
The really hard part is just learning how to read it. When you write your own code, you know how you plan it and what the thought process was. When you alter another's code, you aren't quite sure how they organized it. Luckily, the person who wrote it is literally 10 feet away from me, but I try to read it myself, first.
Oh, one slight annoyance. I write code like this:
a
{
color: #000000;
}
Or this:
a {
color: #000000;
}
The code I'm altering is written like this:
a {color: #000000;}
It's not hard to read for little stuff, but there's more code than my examples. When you have 10+ attributes for one element, it can get really confusing.
Cool Thing:
I cut-up the splash page for Alan Gordon. It's cool because I know it.
It's really neat to be making sites for local business that I've grown up around.
Annoying Thing:
A client asked to have something changed on their site. At one point, the client asked for some content changes. Easy peasy, mostly. But at one point, it included a phrase with an ellipsis (...). So I asked the client for some clarification. They replied with "That is just the format, the order that I want the text you already have on the page formatted in. Sorry for the confusion." I was still confused. So I replied back saying the changes had been done and asked them to review. Hopefully, they'll be either pleased or shocked enough to write in full, grammatically correct sentences.
Feb 19, 2010
