Still alive but got the hands full

February 18, 2007 @ 05:27 AM | posted by carmelyne

(last updated: 06.28.07)

I've been getting my hands dirty with some contributing work for DevChix.

After a day of designing the template in photoshop then getting the wonderful talented group to approve the theme, I went and rolled my sleeves to make the CSS and XHTML version of the photoshop mock up. The DevChix's site is currently using wordpress so I'd have to wire it up according to Word Press specs.

Last Friday night, I started doing the css framework to get the look into actual code. It took about 3 hours. Then Saturday from between 5p.m. to 1a.m and while playing WoW and a few breaks here and there, I was also coding and going back and forth reading the Word Press documentation for wordpress tags, I finally got the goal. Take a peek at devchix.com.

I wouldn't consider the task of transposition as final . Every site to me is a living dynamic entity. I'll be prepared for the things that needs enhancements and tweaks as per usability, glitches and quirks galore beckons. I hope the design serves the group for sometime till the next project.

Back to other things , I'd be going back to my original plan to move forward with this site by next weekend

To do this week:

site footer
dive more into Yahoo!UI

[ Last updated: June 28, 2007 @ 11:06 PM ]

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    find(:all, :order => 'name')
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end

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