D-Day + 1

Where is she?

Its almost done. Just almost…

Close tags… and…… done!

Except her part… its the morning of the deadline, where on earth is she?

I had done this before, this HTML business, way back in secondary school. I was a part of the developer team of what would become my school’s first website. This assignment is just going to be a revision for me.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy… just don’t ask me to do Javascript.

Clever boy eh? Wish I was clever enough to keep that cert I got for the trouble.

It has been a long time since I’ve done any coding, except a little fiddling with the source code to fine-tune my blog posts once in awhile. Most of the time, I had the benefit of using a WYSIWYG web editor, and I’m tempted to use that too for this assignment, but that would defeat the purpose of this exercise wouldn’t it? So, I stuck to coding everything by hand and referring to online tutorials to refresh myself of the tags and syntax used. No biggie.

The first order of business is to find a new host. Geocities is closing down, so I can’t use that. They won’t accept any new applications anyway. Fortunately, finding a new webhost is not too difficult when you don’t have any expectations beyond “stay open”. Wikipedia conveniently has a list of free webhosts, or… I could simply use whatever the lecturer was using. Still easy.

Then, came the part where I actually start coding. After a few minutes figuring out where to get started, I’m all set to go. I’m glad that my parents sent me for typing lessons before I even learnt grammar, it is certainly a helpful skill. However, fast typing isn’t going to save me from slow connections. As if Snailmyx wasn’t slow enough, I kept getting interference on my Wi-Fi network and I can’t pinpoint where is it coming from. Nonetheless, I’ve got it done. I’ve also added a piece of meta code to dissuade web crawlers from linking and following my site, in interest of saving my privacy (or what’s left of it).

Debugging the website was quite a hassle. I’d have to save the changes, wait a while, and refresh a tab with the website already loaded. Can’t Bravenet give the text editor a “preview” button?

As for getting a developer’s blog up and running, I’ve been blogging since 2004. Since then, blog editors have become easier and easier to use. Windows Live Writer is my current favourite.

The hard part of the assignment, is getting my partner to cooperate. The deadline is today and where is she? I have already walked her through the process of logging in, getting to the html text editor, and helped set up her blog during the lab, so I don’t know what’s keeping her. I certainly hope we’d meet the deadline. I’ve never been good with group assignments……

If I were to get this assignment again, I would like to try another host. This one has pop-up ads, real annoying! Also, I’d be praying hard to be working alone.