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  • From: Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [internetworkers] New website launch: zosephine.com
  • Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:07:03 -0400

About six months ago a "close relative" decided a website was needed, and it seemed like a good opportunity to get up to date on this new CSS stuff, as the last time I designed a website was in 1999, which was less of a design, and more a collection of HTML tags.

After the project got started, it became apparent that it was both a huge challenge and way above my head. I ended up doing all of the photography, general page design, and copy writing, all of which is beyond my skill level. Take for example, product shots. I'm pretty handy with a camera, but have never done product photography, and it months of shooting and re-shooting and photoshop editing before the pictures looked even remotely acceptable.

The page design turned out to be hardest part, as even after reading Steve Champeon's excellent book Cascading Style Sheets, Separating Content from Presentation, I still couldn't put together something remotely acceptable. Luckily I found:

http://www.medialab.com/sitegrinder/

This enabled me to design a template and individual pages in Photoshop, and then generate CSS and HTML pages. The pages still had to be tweaked by hand, the CSS edited, but at least it was a way to quickly mock-up designs and get the pages largely created.

After the site was created, it was such a let-down to see it on Windows... I can't believe how poorly pages are rendered, especially the anti-aliasing.

Anyway, after going through all of this I definitely have a much higher appreciation for web professionals, not that I held them in low regard before, but there's nothing like trying your hand at something to gain a new appreciation for those will skills.

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I used to read, but it's faster to just make up stuff. -- Wally
-- michael at czeiszperger dot org, Chapel Hill, NC






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