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yesterday I revamped WINM:
I like how the CSS was actually considered valid by the W3C checker thing. :|
I rewrote all the design coding from scratch for the first time since January 2008. The site was so full of redundant code and pages and various abandoned things. Two iterations ago, the site had rotating banners on the top of the page. The code for that is still around in some of the pages, just sitting there doing nothing. It felt extremely therapeutic to get rid of them all. Now everything is so structurally neat. it makes me happy.
now I also have just two footer files instead of about ten previously (technically I could just have one, but that would mean replacing text in all the articles and re-uploading, which actually wouldn't take long with this automated text replace software I downloaded, but I'm lazy.) And...yeah. Standardised stuff across all pages. There's still some inconsistency with page text headers, but it's partly due to length of titles. :\ which is arbitrary and I should do something about that one day. Managed to have just one CSS file instead of one for IE and one for not!IE. Apparently this is much easier when I actually have validated CSS code. :| The current file has comments in it to remind myself of what each bit is for. Previously I didn't have this, would often forget, and then decide to just create a new style class and ignore the stuff already there; I wouldn't delete just in case it was important.
So... less junk code, pages load faster, organisation has improved very much, redundant files have been deleted, and I'm happy. It's now easier to work on updates and stuff and improving aesthetics, and the next few days will probably be spent editing content that's been untouched since January 2008. instead of doing my homework. or writing fic. ergh I should write fic. I'm feeling guilty about that. currently only 700 words into the next chapter of Plane Between, which is slower than I thought this chapter would be.
I like how the CSS was actually considered valid by the W3C checker thing. :|
I rewrote all the design coding from scratch for the first time since January 2008. The site was so full of redundant code and pages and various abandoned things. Two iterations ago, the site had rotating banners on the top of the page. The code for that is still around in some of the pages, just sitting there doing nothing. It felt extremely therapeutic to get rid of them all. Now everything is so structurally neat. it makes me happy.
now I also have just two footer files instead of about ten previously (technically I could just have one, but that would mean replacing text in all the articles and re-uploading, which actually wouldn't take long with this automated text replace software I downloaded, but I'm lazy.) And...yeah. Standardised stuff across all pages. There's still some inconsistency with page text headers, but it's partly due to length of titles. :\ which is arbitrary and I should do something about that one day. Managed to have just one CSS file instead of one for IE and one for not!IE. Apparently this is much easier when I actually have validated CSS code. :| The current file has comments in it to remind myself of what each bit is for. Previously I didn't have this, would often forget, and then decide to just create a new style class and ignore the stuff already there; I wouldn't delete just in case it was important.
So... less junk code, pages load faster, organisation has improved very much, redundant files have been deleted, and I'm happy. It's now easier to work on updates and stuff and improving aesthetics, and the next few days will probably be spent editing content that's been untouched since January 2008. instead of doing my homework. or writing fic. ergh I should write fic. I'm feeling guilty about that. currently only 700 words into the next chapter of Plane Between, which is slower than I thought this chapter would be.