Category Archives: web design

Code horror

I know I’m not the best coder out there, but I always try to have my code to as semantically correct as possible and to be always valid on the Doctype I’m using. It is how I was trained by my master on my first job as a web designer.

Then, suddenly my html/css code — my baby turns into an ugly monster in the hands of others. Ugly monster? How?

  • semantically incorrect horrible
  • crazy margins and paddings
  • inline CSS code on the html mark-ups
  • reliance to !important CSS overrides
  • even the code’s crazy indentions

Call me crazy but I do treasure something I code, it is like an artwork to me, and to be that horrible quite disappoints me. And to be unable to do anything about it but only use CSS !important to overwrite such code really kills me.

I do know that there is a CMS being used, but I know developers of such CMS developed some flexibilities for this. Of course they’d want to showcase pretty websites both in and out which are using their product. I did search for websites using the very same CMS, and they are fabulous both in looks and code. You get the idea.

Design Fight Club – Coming Soon

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I’ve been blogging about a while now about the Designers’ Website at my workplace. Our deadline to launch our website is today, but sadly we only have a coming soon page to brag about. Our initial plan was to use the Symfony PHP Framework to create our very own CMS, but all has changed now. We will be using WordPress as our CMS, and create plugins to handle the custom features we want to implement.

Everyone seems to agree that WordPress is indeed a great application and with our busy schedules we can’t really dedicate much of our time for a custom CMS. Hopefully everything will go well this coming weeks. I’ll be having a bunch of stuff to do for this site’s upcoming launch.