I Hate Web Design

I just spent the last few days squashing some of the remaining bugs on my site, and I’m telling ya, these were cyber cockroaches from hell. I stomp one bug, and another one shows up, stomp that one, then another shows up. :wall:

It’s the kind of thing that could suck up whole days of my life if I’m not careful. I see a problem and I think “ohh, let me just tweak this one lil’ thing, shouldn’t take more than a few seconds…” Next thing I know it’s Wednesday, and I had started tweaking that lil’ thing on Sunday. :blink: Whether it’s some coding error with a plugin, a flickering bug in IE6, or the layout being a few pixels off in browsers like Safari, I was just resolved to fix every remaining issue on my site so I could finally put it behind me and delve into my real passion, which had always been writing (blogging).

As for web design and all that that entails, it was a good learning experience but man, I have just about had enough of this crap. Next time I want my blog redesigned, I’m hiring a super web guru from Silicon Valley to do it for me. :tongue: I of course expect to be making some money off my blog by that time, so I should be able to afford it when the time comes.

I hope. :pray:

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4 Responses to “I Hate Web Design”

mou wrote a comment on November 7, 2007 @ 09:09:am
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Ha! Good luck my friend. Ive been designing websites for 2 years and writing web applications even longer, and theres not a single thing Ive ever made where I’ve sat back and sat “Yeah, thats the best its gonna be”. Theres always room for improvement, and as long as theres 5 major web browsers on the market it’ll never display exactly the same on them all!

The trick is getting to the point where its as good as it needs to be and stop there. As long as things aren’t broken, does that extra pixel really matter? Specially when fixing that 1 pixel knocks it out by 5 pixels on IE6….

Good luck though anyway. If theres anything thats really making you bang your head off the desk I may be able to help - let me know.

Also, before I go, I’m on IE6 at the moment and this text box (the one I’m typing in now) is expanded under the sidebar so I cant read everything I’m typing…

PS OK, maybe I’m being a little hypocritical. Ive spent more time tweaking my blog in the last 6 months than I have actually blogging!!

Casey wrote a comment on November 7, 2007 @ 09:09:am
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Put up some ads from something I’d actually buy and I’ll help you make some money.

Lincoln Adams wrote a comment on November 7, 2007 @ 10:46:am
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AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:wall: :wall: :wall: :wall: :wall:

:hang:

Man I thought that problem was gone too, but it only happens when you start typing text in the comment box. No wonder I didn’t notice. @#$% Microsoft. :rant:

Thank God for conditional comments though, so I can set it to a fixed width just for IE while leaving the main stylesheet alone, you know, the one REAL browsers know how to render properly. :tongue: