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.
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SOMEONE JUST BROUGHT ME A PEANUT BUTTER RICE CRISPY TREAT THE SIZE OF TEXAS ON A BIG MAP.
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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.
Labels: life, web design, work
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