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[Jim Cook <james_cook AT mindspring.com>]

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U. Jason Gloege Jr. wrote:
> I'm not speaking for Michael, but look @ the subject of the email.
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> j
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> 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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