I Need A Day Off.
April 7th, 2008. Published under Uncategorized. No Comments.
The past 3-4 days have been a gigantic blur. From Thursday night until nearly midnight last night (with some breaks in between for working the full time job on Friday and the part time job Saturday morning) I have been hyper-focused on website design and development (amongst other things) on three different projects:
Pink Ninja Studios: Complete site redesign. Hand-coded from scratch (using some great code tutorials). The whole site is around 135kb. Simple and to the point. I love it.
Gaming Clarity: Tim’s video game news and reviews site. I’m *nearly* finished with that one. The menu is still FUBAR in IE. Have I mentioned I hate IE? Speaking of IE…
PownceCast: This is the “secret” project I’ve been working on. It’s the “official” podcast for the social sharing site Pownce. We just launched the website with our first show last night and while the first episode sounds a bit marketing-heavy, that was more because we had to establish pretty much what the hell we were going to do with the show. It’s short (15-20min) and will be released weekly. What’s the coolest about the whole project is the amazing support and collaboration we’ve gotten from the Pownce development team. That’s worth more to me than anything, and I hope we can do them proud … or at least not embarrass them. :-)
The problem with IE with the PownceCast site is that I was using a pre-developed Wordpress theme that was “IE compatible” and modifying the graphics, the CSS, etc. There was just one problem. It wasn’t IE compatible. The site looked like garbage in IE. After fighting with the CSS for 4-5 days (when I wasn’t at work), I decided on Friday that I was just going to completely re-do the layout from scratch, using this theme as an inspiration. So at work, I printed out the existing CSS and on the bus ride home, I started writing out the changes I was going to make to the layout. From there, I worked on it Friday night and pretty much all day Saturday. When it was all completed, I had three different CSS files: the regular CSS, an IE7 specific CSS and a IE6 specific CSS. Not to mention I had to make some adjustments in the regular CSS file once I learned of a rendering discrepancy between Safari on the PowerPC Mac vs. Safari on the Intel Mac vs. Safari on Windows. How can a site look just fine on Safari on the PowerPC Mac (of course, the one I used for testing) and FUBAR on the other two flavors of Safari? Boggles the mind.
I learned more about conditional comments and layout properties in CSS over the past 3 days that I have in the past 3 years! I am mentally exhausted.
Tech Snark (which just got a new theme as well - but one where I did no mods to) should be ramping up again here in the next week or so and my self-imposed hiatus on my freelance writing gig should be done by the end of the week.
I need a day off. Big time. I think I’ll see if I can take Wednesday off.
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