Most of my free time when not doing some kind of designing, is spent playing games. With that, comes people from all around the world. One person I talk to often, lives in Canada and is taking an html course. She isn't majoring in web design, but it was a class she needed to learn, and I found it strange when some questions were asked. A couple questions included using the <font> and <basefont> tags.

That brought up memories of old teachers getting mad when we used such tags. It almost makes me worry if the teachers there know what they are talking about. Surely they know how to make websites and stuff, but when teaching outdated tags.... tsk tsk.

Helpful tip of the day: Don't use the "b", "i", "font", "basefont", "center" tags. :D

JudyNV:
Is this a really bad attitude or am I being practical?

Not really sure about the bad attitude, as I have some bad habits myself. For a simple website, a deep use of css wouldn't be all that practical, but for a web designer, even a simple website built with a good amount of css makes it easier to manage if/when it does become bigger. My problem is I like going from design to design, since I haven't thought of 1 "so awesome, it never needs to change" design.


@KAckroyd:

I'm definitely not a guru when it comes to coding, but I'll be glad to help in any way I possibly can. Though, :)

@Eric Houser:
I'd like to see CS5 I didn't know it was out yet. Do you work with joomla for CMS? I've been working with that and Virtuemart.

Well, technically, it's not out yet. On some sites I've been on, I've seen the word joomla before, but haven't checked out at what it was yet and haven't heard of Virtuemart at all. In a class last semester, I learned there was Jquery. After using Javascript a bit, I'm a little bothered about changing it to jquery, but if all else fails, javascript will still be the backup.

Answers to Questions (2/11/2010)

I'll try to answer all the questions you ask me, by simply making a new post, so you wouldn't have to search through blog posts to find the answer hidden in the comments area. I also might include comments to things talked about in previous posts, which I'll copy the original text so you know what it is I'm referring to. It'll seem more organized :)



JudyNV: Quick question. How big is the learning curve to move from DW CS3 to CS5?

Dreamweaver CS5 is suppose to come out around April or May if it gets released on time, so I can not comment on that, but as for CS4, the curve isn't very steep. Aside from a couple new features and a new look, a lot has stayed the same. The Put file area, where you upload the files, hasn't changed, nor has the css. You can still view the code, split, and design views, but a new feature is the live view, which can show you exactly what you would see if you previewed it in a browser. My main problem was that, if you had PHP in the page, it wouldn't display properly. I'm really looking forward to see what kind of features CS5 will bring. Some people have assumed some things, while others are telling of stuff they found out from a "friend of a friend". Some rumors have it that Dreamweaver will pump up the support of Web standards and Cascading Stylesheets. We can only wait and see, while praying they don't remove some neat features that we use now. :(


KAckroyd: CSS and all of the rest of that is so daunting for me.

I really like css, though the daunting never stops. One of the most recent things I have been working on is a type of javascript/php thing where certain drop down boxes show up if certain options are selected. One major problem I had with that was the drop down boxes were each in a cell in a table. When they went "visible", all of a sudden, they were outside of the div area. An hour or so later, I finally found the answer. This is kinda like learning a new language (It actually is a new language I guess). You may know thousands of words, but there will always be a couple words/phrases you'll have to look up. Hopefully, I can be of some help :)

Objectives

So, as a web designer, there are many things that I want to do. Finding ways to do new things with with code that can do almost anything imaginable is a passion. I only have a few things set as objectives for now, but once reached, they will be quickly replaced with new objectives. Among those are:

• Creating an extensive, yet simple to use site visited by thousands of people.
• Keeping up to date on the newest releases for web design. Including CSS3, and Dreamweaver CS5.
• Continue to learn different types of code (Php, Ajax, JQuery, etc)
• Make beautiful websites that look and feel professional