The Conquering Coder
Yay! I have finally gotten my CSS stylesheet doing what I want to for my work website. So now I can drop in the French-language courses and navigation info tomorrow (maybe updating the site's main pages in both languages, too, while I'm at it). I love my new header! (Here it is in English with the institution's name blurred out, so you can see what it looks like.)Can't do anything with the faculty pages, yet, since the secretary was totally unprepared for me being on the ball and doesn't have that information ready. Of course, what are my colleagues bugging me about? *sigh*
But I'm so happy for having gotten the stylesheet doing what I want with these pages, full of multiple tables and everything has to look right so you can read through the course information nicely. Now I have to figure out what styling I'll need to add to the other pages, but, frankly, none of them are as complicated as these two.
I'm still trying to figure out if anyone will help me update the actual content on the rest of the site. You know, little things like the program descriptions and the scholarship award page information. Maybe even something for the front page news on current projects? I could start an archive of old news if I could get the university webmistress to get back to me on php access. But it's summer and no one's answering much email.
Of course, I'm not getting paid for this nor getting any credit beyond one line on my CV. No one gives me any respect on this stuff, either, figuring that I can just fire up some software and get it automated or we could get some student to do it for free.
Yeah, right. Certainly, this isn't a huge site, but it's big enough and bilingual, to boot. Plus, I'm fanatical about my code. Everything is coded by hand. I write all the HTML and I now write all the CSS. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only way to get clean, bloat-free code that has a chance of being cross-browser compatible. (Which reminds me, I've got to fire up a Mac emulator and run these pages through their paces.)
In other news, my "33" fic is shaping up a bit more. I have three parts of it written out but I need to start bringing things together. So much work for what will essentially be PWP. But at least it won't be all spoiler-filled! I don't know when I'll get it fleshed out enough to go to a beta. That probably won't be until the end of the week, at best.
We're gearing up for our family vacation, starting next week. There'll be a drive to Toronto, a train trip to Montreal, a wedding back in Toronto and then, the following weekend, a drive back home. We're taking the girls out of school for a week, not that they're complaining! They'll get to see their dad's hometown with his parents who grew up there, as well. They'll come back to the last three days of the school term then we're onto summer vacation where I'll be acting chair of the department for a few weeks and they'll be going to summer day camp. Joy, bliss!
But I'm so happy for having gotten the stylesheet doing what I want with these pages, full of multiple tables and everything has to look right so you can read through the course information nicely. Now I have to figure out what styling I'll need to add to the other pages, but, frankly, none of them are as complicated as these two.
I'm still trying to figure out if anyone will help me update the actual content on the rest of the site. You know, little things like the program descriptions and the scholarship award page information. Maybe even something for the front page news on current projects? I could start an archive of old news if I could get the university webmistress to get back to me on php access. But it's summer and no one's answering much email.
Of course, I'm not getting paid for this nor getting any credit beyond one line on my CV. No one gives me any respect on this stuff, either, figuring that I can just fire up some software and get it automated or we could get some student to do it for free.
Yeah, right. Certainly, this isn't a huge site, but it's big enough and bilingual, to boot. Plus, I'm fanatical about my code. Everything is coded by hand. I write all the HTML and I now write all the CSS. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only way to get clean, bloat-free code that has a chance of being cross-browser compatible. (Which reminds me, I've got to fire up a Mac emulator and run these pages through their paces.)
In other news, my "33" fic is shaping up a bit more. I have three parts of it written out but I need to start bringing things together. So much work for what will essentially be PWP. But at least it won't be all spoiler-filled! I don't know when I'll get it fleshed out enough to go to a beta. That probably won't be until the end of the week, at best.
We're gearing up for our family vacation, starting next week. There'll be a drive to Toronto, a train trip to Montreal, a wedding back in Toronto and then, the following weekend, a drive back home. We're taking the girls out of school for a week, not that they're complaining! They'll get to see their dad's hometown with his parents who grew up there, as well. They'll come back to the last three days of the school term then we're onto summer vacation where I'll be acting chair of the department for a few weeks and they'll be going to summer day camp. Joy, bliss!