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Late night debugging

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I can’t help to scream tonight. It has been 2 days I tried to debug a site on IE6. Who the hell still using IE6, seriously, let’s not say it kill a web designer, it is SLOW! (I installed an IE6 for testing purpose too). Just like Webdesigner Depot reported, it happen to me as well. Now I have to fix both :?
No IE6
Though there are plenty of site supporting to change or upgrade IE6. But after a second thought, we are paid to work on those :(

However, my mind also start twisting when having a short rest. We all can’t blame on IE6 alone, as far as I remember, table works very well with all browsers, it was the XHTML/CSS that screwed up with the web designer. I did a serious thinking about turning the site into table-based before, since some people don’t really care about the standard, but more on viewing it in browser they like, not the web designers like, you see.

Later few days I will attend some event, I guess even the best eye wrinkle cream won’t help me now. Seriously, sometimes luck like to play trick with people. Erm… Should start thinking positive better, Law of Attraction, or God won’t give something I can’t handle? Whichever works better and faster… So freaking sleepy now….

A step to a learning

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Few days ago, I went to a small meeting with some professional web developers, there were backnend guys to frontend guys, and the meeting was short because everything was in rough yet though. Interesting enough, I gets to see how these professional meet with the client. The lessons? Priceless!
Night meeting
A web designer is no more a design on frontend. One should understand how to comnmunicate with the visitor (end user). You need to give a way for the endn user to choose their path, to see what they want, and most of all let them make the judgement. Interesting, though I’ve always heard that making end user think is a big no-no when a click is all that matter to them.

Well, after make a few more thinking, I’ve actually just having a small tiny step onto web world. There’s a lot more to go for me on this field.

Wait!
Office
Suddenly there’s a question came in… “What’s your goal here?“, a very sharp question asked by the senior in the office the other day. Honestly I haven’t get an answer yet, as my head still giving some choice on the path I’m gonna walk through. Guess I’m still a little bit blur about my short goal yet… That’s another step to another learning! Damn, it’s hard to being wongpk :?

Third month as web designer

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So this is the third month I’m working as a web designer. Before this, there’s been numerous time my boss asked me about how I felt and what did I learn in the office. I don’t know how to answer. Really, if those who know me well, they know my answer very well, it is either “Like that lo” or “Don’t know, not bad” because I don’t really like to explain too much, which is why I cannot be a teacher and definitely won’t be a good father as well :lol:
Office
1, It is still as black as the first time I came in here, nobody cares about Sylvania light bulbs to give some white effect. Everybody still keep quiet, that include me too :) Plugging a head phone, everything will be invisible. Er… Beside the boss. Been caught sleeping, been caught coming late, been caught reading The Star and been caught hanging in forum. If this tells you I’m a lazy ass in office then you’re too surface! This means I take the office as home, I treasure whatever I have there hokay? :)

2, Waiting for 5.00pm. As usual, being a normal or should say a freshie in the office, 5.00pm is really important, well, though normally I go home around 6.30pm but still, waiting for 5.00pm is the key to the relaxation. Once the long line touched 12 on my watch, the day seems to go faster :lol:

3, Let’s just say, design and more design. That’s my first step purpose as well, though I like coding a little bit more. I’ve been keep telling myself to polish up a little bit of design, and some graphic people told me that before as well. Now that I work a lot on designing, I think I am stepping into my first step. Second step still pending, don’t ask!

4, Luckily these senior there quite willing to teach. That is also one point. Though I’m still thinking about back to advertising line, but staying where I am now is to upgrade knowledge on internet (Please, don’t keep using the word web anymore). Seriously, if you even notice, advertising start to get more and more prominent on other media beside newspaper, TV and radio. Instead, these old media become a bonus more than the main stream.

5, Time at home. I started to feel that home isn’t really that important. I wonder if this would happen if I’m back at Sibu? The small town that doesn’t take a 3 minutes song to finish before I got home. Spending time at home has been my habit for years since the day I step out to KL study, now it is a total change of situation.

6, Spending too much time on internet. Research and gain more web knowledge, all done on the internet. First thing I do when I woke up was checking my email then have a cup of hot Milo, then go office. Once step into office, turn on computer, open Photoshop and Firefox. The rest is in front the screen. Good, since I was a TV addict when I was a kid, now I’m fulfilling my childhood dream… Great.

7, Getting more and more exposure to the web and internet. It’s been sometimes that I did not update myself on the web thingy, mainly because I was started to get slow with the internet after graduated. Because my whole brain was telling me about graphic designer instead of web designer. I think it worth it when I picked up call the other day :)

Done my 7 points blogging time. Gotta go get some drinks and bath and bla bla bla…