I was diligently working on my web project for class last week, the finished product is here. Well pseudo finished, I've submitted it for my grade already but once I get my grade I'll try to change it around some. The reason why I want to change it is because the site seems seriously hacked together to me, I did the entire site in HTML tables. There's a couple of reason why I did it this way, the first is that we could not use an editor for the assignment, we had to do everything in notepad (bleh). I thought about adding an internal style sheet to avoid the tables, but I have a love/hate relationship with CSS, I love the way it makes life easy (after you've set it up of course), I hate the lack of cross-browser support with everything I do, when I first start a site in CSS it usually takes forever for me to figure out how I want it to look, whether it's going work in Firefox and IE, not only does an editor help with this, I just thought it wasn't worth the time for a web project for an intro class where we didn't even go over CSS to begin with. I really don't prefer to code all the time with crazy CSS hacks, and I'm only self-taught with CSS so my site becomes what looks alright in different browsers and what's easy enough to do with minimal hacks. I'll save my limited CSS skills for my client based web design course or something.
I was thinking of keeping this site active while I'm at WSU though. I like the way it's setup and I would like to outline my projects and papers in the coursework section (under resume right now but I'm going to pop that out in the main nav after I get my grade). Now that it's set up I think that it'll make a good showcase site if anybody is curious what coursework I'm taking, or my resume and experience. It was a fun project though.
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