Started working full time today. Spent four hours working on one file in shakespeare land. Whoo hoo... that's exciting. Four hours.
I get the graphics from the graphics guy as a big, layered photoshop file. I slice the file into smaller graphics and use Photoshop to turn the graphics into HTML tables (I know tables for layout are bad) and turn the HTML tables into a single HTML file. Sounds easy, right? Nope. Using rowspans and colspans is a bad idea: it really screws up the layout and spacing of the elements, and makes things a nightmare to maintain. And dreamweaver doesn't understand them. The solution: nested tables.
Everybody all together now: ouch.
Comments (5)
so how authentic are the reproductions of the originals then after you are done with them?
Posted by christian | April 25, 2005 7:48 PM
Posted on April 25, 2005 19:48
See for yourself:
A simplified image:
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mjoyce/images/index.jpg
The end product:
http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~mjoyce/index.html
Make sure you wave your mouse around the page somewhat. Interesting things should happen.
Posted by michael | April 25, 2005 8:07 PM
Posted on April 25, 2005 20:07
have I ever told you how amazing I find you and your work? If not, well, here we go. But I will only say that once ;-)
Posted by christian | April 25, 2005 10:04 PM
Posted on April 25, 2005 22:04
I try to say it often, and usually when poking him in the belly button in a suggestive and possibly lewd fashion. He's SMART. S-M-R-T, I mean S-M-A-R-T...
Posted by ben | April 25, 2005 11:13 PM
Posted on April 25, 2005 23:13
Beauty Shakespeare website ya made there.
Michael - I found your post through a webpage that combines the blog posts of 109 Victoria bloggers. It's neat to see what people in Victoria are blogging about in near real-time. If you're curious: http://jonaquino.blogspot.com/2005/04/assembling-list-of-local-bloggers.html
Posted by Jonathan Aquino | April 26, 2005 8:04 PM
Posted on April 26, 2005 20:04