Archive for April, 2007
Stephanie • 30th Apr 2007 • webdesign • accomplishment, bcit, work
Part of my job at BCIT is providing technical support to our content publishing community. These are the people who provide the text to fill the templates we make and keep that text up to date. Most of them aren’t web developers and are a little intimidated by the idea of working on the website.
Forty percent of our job is providing encouragement. “Don’t worry, it won’t go up on the website until we release it so you can play around all you want.” “We can always undo the changes if you think you’ve made a mistake.” I get my best compliments from these kinds of support calls.
This morning on of our clients told me, “You’ve made me feel so much better about all this now, I’m so glad you called. What a great way to start a Monday.”
What a great way to start a Monday :)
Stephanie • 24th Apr 2007 • webdesign • bcit, bored, fun, work
Or hardly working?
When the network goes down the whole department starts acting like school kids when the power goes out. We sit around waiting for the power to come back on or the teachers to tell us to go home and the longer it’s out the more trouble we contemplate causing ;)
Stephanie • 23rd Apr 2007 • webdesign • bcit, code, css, guidelines, html, learning, nervous, web standards, work
I’ve been wanting to seriously redo some of the HTML and CSS behind the BCIT site since I came on board here almost a year ago.
Well, I get my wish. We’re going to take some baby steps towards semantic HTML and CSS (POSH if you like) and despite my aversion to being in charge, I’m leading the project.
As a first step I’m trying to write a CSS coding style guide. I can’t necessarily clean up the current mess but I can try to stop any new ones from being made ;)
What I want to do is develop guidelines for:
- if and how style definitions should be divided between multiple style sheets
- what order style definitions should be listed in (I currently put all my tag definitions at the top of documents and then place my id and class definitions beneath them in the order they’re anticipated to appear on the page)
- naming conventions for ids and classes
- commenting conventions
- what order properties should be arranged within definitions
- if and when we should use shorthand properties
- formatting guidelines
So far my research has turned up very few examples to help me with the development. This somewhat out dated post is the best I’ve found so far. Part of my problem is that searching for a style guide for CSS is just coming up with guides to styling with CSS.
Do you work with a CSS coding style guide or know any good resources for developing one?
Stephanie • 23rd Apr 2007 • webdesign • code, css, html, metablogging, web standards
Just like the current BCIT site’s code is horrible thanks to our restrictive CMS I’m not happy with my current blog theme, please don’t judge me on it.
Stephanie • 17th Apr 2007 • webdesign • atmedia, atmedia07, atmedia2007, conference, travel
I just registered for @media 2007. San Francisco here I come :)
Stephanie • 5th Apr 2007 • personal • fun, games, late, oops
Last night I purchased and then stayed up until 2:00 playing Civilization IV. When I finally tore myself away from the game and went to bed I resigned myself to being late for work today.
Today I got to work 20 minutes early.
I think the lesson hear is quite clear.
I need to do this more often!
Stephanie • 4th Apr 2007 • webdesign • ajax, bcit, big picture, learning, microformats, ux, WDN, web standards, work
I thought I’d post my summary of Web Directions North that I distributed to the department a month or so after the conference. I’ve been wanting to write a more technical and personal review of it but it’s pretty clear to me that if I haven’t done it by now, I’m not going to get around to doing it :)
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