Saturday Afternoon … again
After 200 hours spread over 15 days, trying to sort out how to get some functionality out of the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) library, I finally made actual headway. The framework for my technical design site is installed, finally! Why waste so much time learning something when I could have used safe fallback procedures that have worked so well? Good question. But we’re forward-thinking over here, and having more fully-worked-out tools to work with is almost always a good thing.
I’d always rejected the javascript version of web site elements in favor of HTML & CSS versions. But I’d rather make choices based on whether they’re effective in the context of a project, or not, than on unfamiliarity or slightly dated attitudes towards them.
So the balance of the weekend will be spent dealing with ‘content’ rather than structural issues.
On a personal note, I woke this morning feeling rather exhausted and wobbly. The last 2 1/2 weeks have been very difficult, what with extremely long hours and diminished expectations as far as completing my business site and getting on wiith 4 or 5 other sites that are in the backlog here.
I sent out “feelers” to a few people that I know who have design experience, and (preferably) expertise in certain areas (ASP.NET, PHP, javascript, logo work and design in general) and lo and behold my logo person is right here within 2 miles of me, and did my logo for the Big River group (my business company umbrella company).
As for the others, not much to report yet.