Life Isn’t Always That Simple For Me

Tags: technology, website design, websites

Whilst things always seem to be getting a bit better for myself over time theres one thing that is really really annoying me and is a problem I have had since I was about 12. Not many of you would know, but I suffer from a pretty bad case of Dermatitis. It doesn’t sound like its that severe of a problem but I have it permanently and it affects a large part of my head including my scalp (pre-dominantly around my face hairline), eyebrows and nose. Thankfully with modern medicines I have been able to keep it at bay (except for the odd day) but I still have my bad days and the reason for posting on here is just because its a big daily annoyance for me and maybe someone out there has had some success with other types of medicine to remove the signs of it (other then Nizoral and Derm-Aid).

Onto things maybe a bit more interesting for some others out there, Brent sent me a link to the new upcoming i-mate mobile phone. On the link was to one phone that looks alot like a Blackberry but the other new phone took my interest, the PDAL. It has a very neat design hiding the numbers of the display and infact just after a quick google just then, i-mate already have the full specs on their website. It seems to have most the same specs of my SP5 but just with a more modern and cleaner look.

Whilst I think about it one thing very wrong about the official i-mate website (even though they have just had a new re-design) is that fact that on every specifications page for all of their phones there is no raw text, its all in an image… very user un-friendly!

Also I am still working on the new design, and hopefully not too far off now (lil preview on left). And lucky me have got permission from a favourite artist of mine to use excepts of his work on the new design!

Web Design Woes and My Hair?

Tags: business, fashion, website design

The past week we have been flat out as always in the business but the work I have been doing has been far more enjoyable doing more of the design work. Ive been still of late trying to work out exactly what field in website development (yes theres many different areas!) that I really enjoy and am good at and after this week it has really opened my eyes and re-affirmed what my real skill and passion towards to the converting of a completed design to (X)HTML and CSS.

Whilst this is the more difficult stage of the website development process, its something I find myself really excelling at. But some of the reasons why this is more difficult is because my biggest enemy is web browsers such as Internet Explorer. A lot of people don’t realise there are many different browsers out there with the main one being Internet Explorer (IE) which holds around 75%-80% of users followed by Firefox (my fave) at around 10%-15% and the ‘others’ such as Opera (becoming popular on non-pc applications such as Phones and Consoles) and Safari (for the Mac’ers out there).

The reason the browsers are my enemy is because I would spend approx. 40% of my time trying to make the design work in multiple browsers as they all seem to just have their own way of wanting to display the content. Whilst Firefox IMO is the one closest to displaying it correctly, IE is the most popular and has a good habit of being evil and not showing it not even close to correct.

Enough of the techno jargon and just a quick dilema I am having at the moment and please dont laugh.. my hair. Im not certain what I want to do with it next haircut, reason being is I have let it grow out just a bit longer then usual to see how it looks as I was sick of the look of my hair. Downside being i think I prefer it a bit shorter again and streaked as well. Oh well no harm in making it shorter again and doing that.. Just hopefully all will look well

Also I signed up yesterday to Medibank Private after much tossing up between different packages from different providers. Medibank Private seemed to have the best deal going for what I wanted and on the plus side I get a free bike even though I already have one (and actually just about to go for a ride now). Looks like someone might be a getting a nice christmas present! (and no need to worry Gemma, not for you )