Things are going well at DopplerDesign. Working at home is fun. We have a very casual dress code.
I’m in the middle of a website makeover for some folks in Bethany. I want you to see it, but not yet.
I think I’m doing a good job for them. Here’s how I know. I’m really enjoying the work.
Like coders a third my age, I work in spurts, often at night. Friday’s run started early evening and finished Saturday morning around 7:30.
If you’ve never coded you probably don’t know, spelling counts! It’s one of the few places left.
Go to Google and misspell Britney Spears name. They’ll find her.
Humans are good at that too. We’ve adapted to live in a world with imperfect information.
Not so on the Internet, where every command has a specific response expected. And, unfortunately, servers gladly execute bad commands!
The website do-over is being coded in CSS and HTML, with a tiny bit of PHP and JavaScript. That’s a CSS sample above. Click on it for a more readable, but no more understandable, view.
This code is written by hand. I type the commands into Notepad++ which is connected to a distant server. When I hit “save” it’s online, immediately affected by my keystrokes.
Nobody’s perfect.
Last night I brought on the “White Screen of Death!” One extra “Enter” turned the entire backend of the website blank.
A quick Google search found the proper corrective action. IN cases like this, Google is your friend!
I have special tools to go into the server and fix stuff like this.
Missing “;”s and “}”s are almost as bad. The website displays on the screen, but everything’s in the wrong place or is oddly formatted. It’s a mess.
The problems have been all taken care of, but surely there will be loads of snafus large and small before the site’s finished. The last step before going live is clearing the ‘punch list.’ It’s just like the one on a new home.
I really do want you to see it. Soon.