Puck’s Blog

I’ve been crunching HTML and PHP code the past ten days. I’ve got a new contract and the site layout is due soon, with a strong content management system in the background and a specific (and great) layout created by my main design man Walter. I’m in charge of the whole deal.

It’s been a while since I’ve jumped this in-depth into coding. I’m doing a lot of it by hand, which I haven’t done in a while, and it’s all coming back to me. The tricks and techniques involved in making the page appear the way you want it despite some troublesome (but cool!) layout choices are incredibly satisfying. Today I hit such a big breakthrough that I literally jumped out of my chair and did a series of pelvic thrusts while shouting “YEAH!”

I guess you had to be there to appreciate it.

The site is coming along great and I’m really proud of it. The work Walter and I have done in the recent past usually involves creating the templates and letting the in-house web programmers for the clients deal with it, but this time that programmer isn’t in-house — it’s me. I’m still annoyed at a few of the classless tables that the CMS(Content Management System) (Mambo) is spitting out, but I’m confident I can track them down and force a class to them. Was that too technical? Basically if a table has a “class” I can easily set up how it appears. If it’s just a “table” then it has nothing to distinguish it from any other table on the page and it’s hard to set its layout properties right.

Back to work!