Tuesday August 19 2008
New Client
Yesterday I recieved the signed contract and deposit for my latest client. This is going to be a big site and I’m looking forward to doing it.
The interesting thing here is that the client chose a template to download. I unfortunately misread emails and purchased the wrong template and had to purchase the correct one. Anyhow I’m not impressed with template-help.com as both times I downloaded the archived files I had to re-download it multiple times due to crc errors in the zip files. I ended spending about an 1 for each template trying to get an uncorrupted version.
The mistake file that I downloaded was table based and I’m very happy I don’t need to build from that design. The second template is pure CSS, but it’s not exactly semantically written and there are some errors in the code primarily many semi-colons are missing. I know this as I went through the css files and indented them to increase readability - the original downloads looked like this:
#content h2{font-size:1.71em; font-weight:normal; color:#000000; font-family:Times New Roman; background:url(images/icon1.gif) no-repeat top left; padding:5px 0px 5px 40px; margin-bottom:9px;}
Mine now look like this:
#content h2{
font-size:1.71em;
font-weight:normal;
color:#000000;
font-family:Times New Roman;
background:url(images/icon1.gif) no-repeat top left;
padding:5px 0px 5px 40px;
margin-bottom:9px;
}
anyhow I’m ready to dive into this as soon as I finish the navbar I’m working on - it’s causing me headaches in one remaining section.
