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  • From: "U. Jason Gloege Jr." <ujgloege AT gmail.com>
  • To: "Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] New website launch: zosephine.com
  • Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:25:11 -0400

I'm not speaking for Michael, but look @ the subject of the email.

j

On 3/13/07, Jim Cook <james_cook AT mindspring.com> wrote:
Any chance you're going to share the url so we can see you built? (Even
if some us only
have Windows. FWIW, I always use Firefox, so that should help it look
better...)
-Jim

Michael Czeiszperger wrote:
> 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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