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Friday, July 25, 2008
details...
I had promised details about my awesome job and never delivered. What can I say, I just liked the suspense.

I really love the job. For my career I see myself doing something much more creative than what I am required to do here. Everything we do has to conform to "standards", but since I've never done anything like this, the structure is a perfect environment for learning the basics.

What I do like is the attention to detail and good web practices our department has insisted the company adopt as part of their standards. A LOT of the work I do is converting old sites into more current, clean and web friendly code.

For those of you who have NO idea what I'm talking about, I'll give you a little example, I took this code

<.table align="center" width="100%" class="tableBorderLIGHT".>
<_tr>
<.td align="center" style="padding-left:10px;"><_a href="ME_CaseLaw.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Case Law<_/a>
<_/td>
<_td align="center"><_a href="ME_statutes.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Statutes<_/a>

<_td align="center"><_a href="ME_courtrules.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Court Rules<_/a>
<_/td>
<_td align="center"><_a href="ME_Admin.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Admin. Materials<_/a>

<_/td>
<_/tr>
<_/table>

Which is the code for the RED navigation in this picture:



And I changed that code to this:

<_table class="top_tablewidth">
<_tr>
<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_CaseLaw.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Case Law<_/a><_/td>
<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_statutes.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Statutes<_/a><_/td>
<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_courtrules.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Court Rules<_/a><_/td>
<_td class="toplink"><_a href="ME_Admin.htm" target="mainFrame" class="pages">Admin. Materials<_/a><_/td>
<_/tr>
<_/table>

Which made it look like this visually



Not a lot of changes, but it looks better and fits into our web standards. This particular site had 25 pages I had to make changes to. I also made it all uniform, so the spaces between the forms were even on every page and lined up, and also made a welcome page (that you see here on the right) that logs the users by last name.

And that's it! That is what I do all day, and I love it... for now.

I sit in a little cubical that is about 10x10 and grey.

<_offtopic>
SOMEONE JUST BROUGHT ME A PEANUT BUTTER RICE CRISPY TREAT THE SIZE OF TEXAS ON A BIG MAP.
<_/offtopic>

I have a dry erase board that I haven't written on yet, two CSS books I checked out from the library we have on the first floor, and a little drawer I keep some files in. OOOOH and I have pushy pins, to hang random things up with. I <3 href="http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/berlinvideo/">watch this now. Mega stud's that attract 200,000 Germans, here's to hoping he doesn't sell out to the man.

PS: 12 more wake ups till I leave for Atlantic City... watch out Jersey.

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7 Comments:


  • At 11:12 AM, Blogger Hrbek

    yo yo nh

    just a question: can you target your td elements by descending selectors? like this:

    table.top_tablewidth td {
    /* bunch of styles here */
    }

    so that way you can still all tds that are a part of the tables classed as they are, and remove the extra class from the td itself.

    hrbek likey to code least amount possible as a rule.

    nh nh

     
  • At 11:51 AM, Blogger t

    I'm sure I could, I just didn't know I could :)

    I know | | <-- that much about CSS - and everything I do know I taught myself, or axed somebody (which is kind of frightening, really) the "Cascading" part is the hardest for my brain to wrap around.

    Ima go try that now...

     
  • At 3:45 PM, Blogger Hrbek

    if you've been trained in html and understand tables and spacers and sliced up images, css can be very tricky to get at first. things can stick out of containing boxes, widths are rendered weird, all kinds of things.

    steal mine, right-click, and/or ax me wtf i was thinking.

     
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  • At 12:29 AM, Blogger Jamespauline

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    My name is Emily, and I’m an Seo Account Manager for 888.com.

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    Best Regards,
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    SEO Account Manager

     
  • At 2:06 AM, Blogger Jamespauline

    Hi,

    My name is Emily, and I’m an Seo Account Manager for 888.com.

    Due to the latest Google algorithm changes we are currently doing a lot of hard work to clean up a lot of the incoming links to our site to comply with Google’s quality guidelines.

    We detected this link coming from your site, http://spotoft.blogspot.nl/2006/10/you-dont-play-what.html

    It would really mean a lot to us if you could remove the links.
    This link is harmful for our site as well as yours.

    We really appreciate your effort and time and let us know if we can help you in any way.

    Best Regards,
    Emily
    SEO Account Manager
    Emily@888mediaweb.com