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I Hate Web Development

Yorrike — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:27:42 +0000

There, I said it. Web Development is a dull combination of reinventing of the wheel, rebranding established layouts and telling people what is and isn’t possible in HTML/CSS.

The only reason I do it is as a job is to make cash, and because I’m reluctantly good at it. As I make my way towards my MSc in Geology, I keep dreaming of a day where I won’t have anything to do with making web pages, cutting new CSS layouts or having someone saying:

I want this site to be a bleeding edge tour de force of the best the net can offer – here’s a jpeg of what I want it to look like, and I’ll pay you $100 – the deadline is tomorrow

And being so desperate for cash, that I’ll take it.

Granted, I have a few projects from people I have the utmost respect for, and I’ll gladly work for them while the going’s good, but in the end, I’m moving on from this life of margin and padding problems and one day I’ll make my money using my brain, studying meteorites.

HCG – Running

Yorrike — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:17:55 +0000

If you’ve been hanging out here for news of hardcoregamers‘ relaunch, then consider this the post you’ve been after.

I’ve got the design almost sorted, and I’m starting to write articles (cool, eh?). So head over to see what my other web page looks like. I’ve gone for a super-minimalist layout, which seems to work rather well for a site dedicated to a narrow subject like video gaming. I’m interested in feedback, so post it either here, or in the first article over there.

WordPress Upgrade

Yorrike — Sat, 12 Mar 2005 03:27:18 +0000

I’ve upgraded yorrike.com to WordPress 1.5, as is obvious with the not-so-bad Kubrik theme now lovingly embracing my content.

As nice as it is, I’m currently metamorphosing my own design into a WP1.5 theme, so everything should return to “normal” soon-ish (although I am adopting the font related css involved in this template, since it’s super sweet!).

Technology I Use

Yorrike — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 00:13:52 +0000

Thought I’d just write a small article about the software and hacks I use to make this site run. More of a reference for me than anything else, but you may find it useful or interesting.

WordPress

First and foremost, the blogging software I use is WordPress, and brilliant, free, php-based package that works just as you’d expect. I’ve done some major template hacking, namely messing around with the index.php rearranging thing, moving menus to separate files and tweaking the xHTML so it fits my exacting standards.

Design and CSS

I’m a sucker for CSS. I’ve been building pages with it for about 3 years now, and I’m still finding new and interesting ways to have content displayed through it.

Yorrike.com uses mainly CSS1 and CSS2, but I do have a few CSS3 selectors lurking around. This is all well and good if you use a real browser, but when it comes to Internet Explorer, CSS3, and many of CSS2′s selectors are frustrating missing. To overcome this, and avoid straying from the standards, I use the IE7 Hack by Dean Edwards. This comprises of a set of JS libraries that force IE to comply with my CSS.