Having been taught the bare basics of web editing during my studies, and figuring that anyone who's someone these days nees a website, I made my first website to introduce yours truely 3 to 4 years ago.  I had all this cool idea's about how it should be, fading in here, out there, scrolling, mouseovering, err... 'div'ing, and whatnot.  Suffice to say that both the lack of time and skill killed much of what I had in mind.

But over time, and more so the last year, the need to update my website has arosen.  I mean really, what's the point in having a website if it doesn't show any of your works?  So after a few false starts in which I simply couldn't spend the time re-learning webcoding and searching the web for what I needed, I finally pulled through in the last couple of weeks.  I even managed to realize my vision on how I wanted to present my works.  It has some ancient javascript in there, drowned out by the rest of the sloppy coding, but it gets the job done.  So yeah, without further ado: www.yvt.be .  It's in dutch, so it won't make sense to the lot of  you, but hey, I don't know anyone that'd be able to appreciate/scrutinize my hard work.  Next up: getting the thing to actually show up on google when you search for my name.

Posted by SupremeAC Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:19:19 (comments: 20)
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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:32:23
I hate html and internet coding in general, I think it should be WYSIWYG instead but the compatibility fails with them.
 
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:49:22
I, in general, don't condone with the wysiwyg school of thought.  It does away with the element of wonder towards the matter.  When people see that something is easy to 'do', they also assume it requires little expertise to do it well.
Wysiwyg also has limitations.  It'll work fine for run of the mill stuff, but if you want to do something specific, you still need to get your hands dirty.
 
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:19:01

Learning HTML just felt like busting my ass to put a column in the right place. I was pretty good at it, better than anyone else in the class but I still couldn't get a website to look the way I wanted it too. And coding is just too abstract for me, laying down all this written symbols, letters and numbers referencing everything else. It really is like learning a new language.

 
Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:57:22
Scumbag SupremeAC: Talks about HTML, doesn't actually make his URL a link.
 
Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:34:14
It's a precaution so that the NSA doesn't catch wind of me.  Can't be too carefull these days.
 
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:00:47

Do you want me to read it and critize it?

 
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:34:45
Heh, i just noticed you're from Holland yesterday...  Lets just say I'm more proud of the graphic design than the actual writing itself  Nyaa
 
Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:46:20
gamingeek said:

Learning HTML just felt like busting my ass to put a column in the right place. I was pretty good at it, better than anyone else in the class but I still couldn't get a website to look the way I wanted it too. And coding is just too abstract for me, laying down all this written symbols, letters and numbers referencing everything else. It really is like learning a new language.

Man kids these days are spoilt.  When I was at university I had to teach myself LaTeX which basically meant I had to write a program to produce a paper in pdf or ps (because it had lots of integrals and other cool maths that look like shit in word).  And that was something I had to do in two afternoons as an aside to the actual work I was doing.

 
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:06:55
I don't know who of you was better off though.  They 'thaught' us a cad program, but managed to do such a bad job at it, that everyone thought it was absolute shit.  Most even learned autocad on their own, just so they wouldn't have to use the one we were given.  I had to use it later at my first job though, and man, if used properly, that thing was a beast.  Best cad program I've used so far.
 
Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:23:11
SupremeAC said:
I don't know who of you was better off though.  They 'thaught' us a cad program, but managed to do such a bad job at it, that everyone thought it was absolute shit.  Most even learned autocad on their own, just so they wouldn't have to use the one we were given.  I had to use it later at my first job though, and man, if used properly, that thing was a beast.  Best cad program I've used so far.

Autocad?! Are you an engineer?

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