CSS, Troubles & More
With New Designers coming up rapidly there has been much fretting about who is doing what and who is designing what. With myself and a few others being on an internship at Samsung it has proved hard to keep things consistent.
After much arguing through many emails I have decided to defer my vote to someone else as it’s getting heated. Just need someone to make a creative decision who is higher up in the hierarchy than we are.
Forgetting all of that stuff, I have redesigned my website, business card and all pdf documents and updated my ‘brand’ since doing that for the final degree exhibition. I changed the colour to 100% Magenta instead of orange but kept the same font The portfolio section is now up with proper descriptions, pictures and styling (with some more projects to come when I get a chance).
My business card can be seen below and yes I am aware that the back of the card has the wrong corners rounded in the image.
While at Samsung I noticed that my new website design did not look correct in IE6 (no surprise there then) so I spent some time correcting some CSS problems. No sooner than I had done that than I tried it in Safari and it failed even more to display correctly.
After several hours trying to figure out what the problem was, changing (and improving) my CSS stylesheet I discovered that even though I zero’d all margins at the start of the CSS by:
* {margin:0px; padding:0px}
Safari is a bitch and does not recognise that. So after several hours of trying, finally declaring the padding and margins as 0 for ul and li elements as well as entire divs, the formatting magically came into alignment in Safari.
After doing all that, feeling like I needed to vent some of my frustration and being British I wanted to write a strongly worded letter to Mr. Jobs. Instead I am blogging about it. This in itself proved more difficult than first anticipated as when I logged into Worpress, the visual text editor for the post screen had gone and all the text was coming out in white! After a quick Google and a re-install of WordPress 2.8 the editor came back and I can see what I’m writing now.
I have just received an HTTP error while uploading my business card image. Seriously what is going on with the internet tonight?
Now the reason I am blogging at this late hour and not in bed, asleep in preparation for work tomorrow is simple… There are people in my house who I don’t know, playing very loud music. I hope tomorrow is a better day.
After adding more features to my site over the past few days and they have screwed up margins or padding in IE6. Advice from the internet seems to be to just forget IE6. I am inclined to agree.