# A Possible Job Over My Summer

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-possible-job-over-my-summer/225689>\
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**Created:** [May 14, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-possible-job-over-my-summer/225689 "2007-05-14T22:31:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Wheeler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/59ef9b/32.png) [@Jeff\_Wheeler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Wheeler)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-possible-job-over-my-summer/225689/1 "2007-05-14T22:31:39Z")

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I’m having trouble on this one…

My teacher has some friends that he knows that make sites, and they have shown interest in getting a student to help them out with some extra work over the summer, and potentially continuing on part-time after that.

He says they do lots of PHP stuff, and a bit of Rails (doubleplusgood). Their site is valid XHTML (_wow_, it doesn’t look like it!), albeit only transition. It does include some Flash, though, which I hate.

Anyways, it’s a bit awkward, since I don’t want to have to go through my teacher to do it: it’d be better if I had found it independently.

I’m not sure I should link to their website, but let’s say I would describe it as mediocre, but not _that_ bad. It has a lot of ugly elements and bad colors, and a bit cheesy how ready to give their phone number they are, etc… also, despite the validity of their source, it’s actually quite bad, with stuff like,

```auto
<div id='container'>
<div id='border'> 
  <div id='alpha'> 
    <div id='header'>

```

☹

Hell, and some stuff that’s worse than a simple case of ‘divitis’ and id names representing style. 😛 Can’t say it doesn’t validate, though.

Anyways, I’m thinking about emailing them independently of going through my teacher. They’ll probably mention it to him, so he’ll know I did it, but they won’t tell him a whole lot of specifics, I suspect (i.e. hope).

I’ll tell them that I do a lot of programming, less of the design, and love Django, but can handle Rails. I have a lot of PHP experience, but strongly advocate against it.

Uh, yeah. Not exactly sure what to do…