Monthly Archives: September 2004

Tools

I do my web dev work on Mandrake Linux, using Qanta 3.2 as web editor and gftp to transfer files back and forth.. nnMy boss uses Frontpage, the cool thing about Frontpage is, it allows you to instant update on the actual site(file), so it sort of combines the editor and file transfer features.. He does updates quite quickly using Frontpage, he asked me why it took me longer than him to modify a web page.. well, a coder like me, will firstly need to understand the structure of the page, as well as finding where the things are (and those pages made up by WSIWYG editor ie Frontpage are really hard to understand, no indentation whatsoever.. sad.. ) .. secondly, not use to Frontpage, and my boss is using dialup, and yep frequent freezes do occur, lastly, I felt pressurized with him looking over me shoulder… nnIf only I own a laptop with Linux, I would surely demonstrate to him my actual speed :>

Mimi and Mintuna

Those are the goldfish that lina gave me for birthday.. I have been wanting fish as pet (not for food :P) for quite a while, I thought that seeing them swimming will be relaxing.. Unfortunatelly haven’t been able to watch them swimming very much, as they are in my living room and I spend most of my time in bedroom..

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Planning to get more fish to make it more alive inside.. will probably need a “real” aquarium..

Learning the art of parenthood (only the 1% of it or even less).. 🙂

Font

Some classical fonts to be considered for making wedding page or other classical page:nGeorgia, Monotype CorsivanAll of these fonts are available when I was playing around with Photoshop Elements, however whether or not they are readily available for web browser rendering I am not so sure.. Will need to read more on it. Felix mate, this is the entry for your font learning journey!

Web dev notes #1

The purpose for this entry is for me to write down steps to design the site (which I might reproduce to design others). I am developing the site following closely Project 1 from the book Eric Meyer on CSS (a good book). n1. Decide the overall layout of the site. Draw on a piece of paper the layout. Decide how many columns, where to put site navigations, do you use banner and things like that.n2. Play around with colour theme. I use GIMP to get color code as well as comparing colors. n3. Start coding. Remember to use CSS and HTML effectively (seperate logic from presentation). n4. Get contents and make it as close as possible to the real thing. n5. Write down the additional functionalities that you want for the site. This can be things like: always changing ad banner, search function, putting today’s date, print function etc. Remember that some of these require quite an effort to implement (well at least effort to get the codes from someone else on the net :))n6. Beutification of the site using graphics as you see fit.