August 21, 2000
Budding Webgeek
Oy. There is no small amount of drama here at work today. Or rather, very little drama, so therefore wild speculation abounds. Apparently the coworker heretofore known as The Banal One was fired on Friday.
That's the assumption, at least. There's been no official word from my supervisor about it at all. I wouldn't even know she was gone for good if another coworker hadn't told me. It's really crappy of me to feel a little happy about this news, but honestly, she was highly annoying to work with. Aside from being constantly late or constantly on personal calls (which we got to hear alllllll about -- I knew more about her sex life than I did my own) or constantly away from her desk, that is. She clipped her toenails at her desk and made us watch, y'all! During lunch! And I don't even want to get into the phone sex calls she used to make in the evenings to her scary Internet lovers. (I know they were scary. We met a few.) I'm not kidding. I used to have to sit and listen to her giggling and cooing breathily and saying things like, "Well, I can't talk about that here..." and "Oh really? And then what would you do?" The thought of her being sexually aroused in my vicinity was a highly disturbing one, let me tell you.
But now that era's over and I don't have to listen to her nasal little voice right behind me anymore.
In other news... I'm still incredibly frustrated over the Netscape fiasco from yesterday. Of course, I could have done my homework to realize that Netscape has really poor support for CSS, but the thing with the tables just makes me bonkers. If you're viewing this site on Netscape, please could you email me? Let me know what version you're using, what font the text seems to be showing up in and if the quotes on the sidebar are readable? Screen captures would also be lovely. I am going to figure this out, I am.
Right now I'm considering working on a more multiplatform design, and leaving the frames and its archives up as a separate subdirectory of their own. I don't know. I've been getting a redesign bug for a while now anyway. But with working on the Changeling site redesign too... I dunno. I'm really, really proud of everything I've learned about web design and coding. But every time I think I've reached a pretty decent level of knowledge, I realize just how much further I have to go. Or, more accurately, every time I get too smug about my own abilities, something like the whole Netscape thing happens to knock me down a peg.
So now my new goal is to start educating myself in browser standards and what works in what browser and such. I'm really tempted to just say to hell with it and design for IE only and let everyone else deal, but... I can't. I'm too much of a perfectionist. I also downloaded Opera (an alternate browser to the Big Two) last night and started using it, to see how I liked it. First impressions are good: it's much much smaller than the insanely bloated Big Two, it didn't try to install an email program and a newsreader as well, and it didn't try to take over my computer and 'help' me by giving me shortcuts everywhere and establishing itself as my default browser.
Help me. I'm turning into a webgeek. (Yeahyeah, I hear you all going, 'Turning into?')
Posted by Lisa at August 21, 2000 02:16 PM
