Monday, June 5th, 2006
It’s nearly finished! Today, i spent the whole entire day going through the final web site design. I created two contact pages, updated the left and right containers, paragraphing, test multiple monitor resolutions on IE and Firefox and linked portfolio images to their orginal file. The wierd thing was that everything was 99% complete! So I had to go through each and every item and finalise! Yet, i still feel as if it’s not finished yet. I guess it’s the feeling when you’re about to launch a project you’ve been working hard on and you get the feeling that you’re missing something. Anyhow, tommorrow, I will go through and do the final step. Optimise graphics. I will not launch the web site till its the morning of the 7 June 2006. Tomorrow night, I have another business seminar, should be good. I will be able to get some more ideas and apply them to River Designs after my web site launch.
Things i’ve learnt today.
1. CSS is very frustrating.
2. Even though table designs is “old”, they are faster to develop and works with ALL browsers.
3. When deleting CSS rows, make sure you comment them out so you can revert to old code. (very useful).
4. Do regular backups with versions. I had to revert to an older version of the web site to get the CSS overlapping problem fixed.
5. The last few days before the web site launch, there seems to be so many little things that need fixing.
6. Make sure when you finish something, make sure you actually FINISH it.
7. As you’re progressing through the project, the little things that take a few minutes to finish usually gets delayed to the last few days of the project. Which adds to a whole bunch of little things to do!
8. Not writing or practicing writing content tends to reduce “content flare”. I’ve just noticed this as I write content right now!
The biggest setback i’ve had today was getting the overlapping problem fixed. I went through the code line by line and it turns out, the code that displays only the background image was the problem! I still do not understand why this happened but it appears to have fixed it! Strange stuff!
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