Stephanie • 17th Dec 2009 • personal • batman, comics, hero, robin, superhero
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I was asked the other night who my favourite comic book character is and anyone who knows me would answer without hesitation: Batman. They’d be close.
It’s Robin all the way.
Not Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, or Tim Drake – Robin. You know, that colourful target that swings into action next to the dark knight.
I like the idea that Batman needs a little bit of light to balance his darkness. I like the energy, optimism, and ingenuity of a kid fighting in an adult world.
Who’s your favourite?
Stephanie • 10th Dec 2009 • webdesign • bcit, code, css, web design, webdesign
Rather than doing one giant redesign and launch, at BCIT, we’ve been doing small updates for a while now.
Take our footer for example, I got to update all of them using the CSS a few times and then we decided we wanted to mix up the HTML. Templates and applications were updated with the new code in phases. There were a few different ways the CSS for this could have been managed but I chose to have the old code co-exist with the new in the same style sheet and differentiated the two with IDs (let’s say I called them #footer and #fatfooter).
We’ve phased in #fatfooter slowly across the 46ish templates, 3 CMSs, and only Brandon knows how many applications with their own code that make up our website.
We should be done now and, unintentionally, I made it easy for us to check. A quick search of the server for id=”footer” turned up all the stragglers.
Some of the stragglers had been neglected for a while and turned out to need more than just a new footer…
So what’s languishing in your code that you can delete?
