03/12/2005 Archived Entry: "outsourcing"
Here's a website I made this week for a project in CS480. I'm sure the layout looks familiar to everyone. This was really my first attempt at doign something a bit more "professional" or "corporate" looking. It's still elegant and simple using nothing but HTML, the way I like it. I'm very much against the use of java or other scripting languages for purely making things look better. Although my gratuitous use of irrelevant pictures here...
And here is a look at what the page looked like while in progress. I began writing it with tables but had a hell of a time getting the table to look exactly like I wanted it to and couldn't figure out how to do a bunch of things and ended up scrapping everything at like 2am to start over using DIVs. Looking at the code behind the two versions, I think you'd all agree that the final version's looks much cleaner. The picture of the brown earth wasn't really doing anything for me either, though the search for and photoshoping of pictures was fun. That blue earth picture is just gorgeous!
The class was given 3 options for this part of the assignment, do a web page, an in-class presentation, or a poster presentation (like a seminar type thing). I think it was OBVIOUS that the majority of a CS class would choose to go the webpage route. Really, it shouldn't have even been an option just to force us to do something a little different. Regardless, check out this list to see what some of the other students' pages look like. It's fun seeing all the different ways people came up with presenting things. Some students really did not put any effort into their design though, or maybe they did and it just came out looking the way it did. I think mine stands somewhere above average in looks but certainly not as polished as some of the others.
On mine, read the part about outsourcing to Canada; it's actually pretty interesting if I say so myself and check out my poor attempts at humour on the links and contact us page. Skip/skim the rest.
Tangenially, I really like the new look of gelatometti, the green lines that frame everything are very eye catching. They got the design from the guys behind CSS Zen Garden who do the same "skins" thing as I but...better.
Replies: 10 comments
The photo you used for your contacts section is "scary"...:P
Posted by dAN @ 03/12/2005 11:22 AM EST
Jah. Rachel and I are individually better looking than those two collectively.
Posted by Rayne @ 03/14/2005 04:27 AM EST
collectively but not individually? does that mean that the hotness of one of you two more than compensates for the relative lack of good-lookingness in the other?
Posted by melpie @ 03/14/2005 11:17 AM EST
hmm..I meant that Rachel and I are each better looking than those two put together.
Posted by Rayne @ 03/14/2005 06:49 PM EST
Mel makes no sense...:P!!
Posted by dAN @ 03/14/2005 07:16 PM EST
Categorize her as a spammer...;)
Posted by dAN @ 03/14/2005 07:16 PM EST
That was done long ago.
Posted by Rayne @ 03/15/2005 12:19 AM EST
i make sense! to myself at least ... i just have difficulties expressing my thoughts sometimes, which is characteristic of intj's (sadly, i was reading up on myers-briggs last night).
and if i'm spam rayne, you really need a better spam filter! i'm able to post without doing any tricks at all!
Posted by melpie @ 03/15/2005 10:20 AM EST
cuz you're triksy already.
Posted by Rayne @ 03/15/2005 10:22 PM EST
whatever you say, gollum.
Posted by melpie @ 03/16/2005 01:49 PM EST