Well, my friend called me up this morning and told me that he needed my help. He needed me to make him a website. I said, “sure…when do you need it by?” He responds, “Tuesday.” So I hung up on him. After he called back I agreed to make the site. He sent me all the files and I got to work. I started at 11 am, and I just finished at 6:27 pm. It is a ‘portfolio’ site for him, and he needs it for school and a job interview that is coming up. He isn’t taking credit for the site, just the content. Here it is:
I would like you to take a look and see how you like. I am kind of proud of it, only because I finished it in less than 8 hours. It is ugly, has very colorful jpgs that take forever to load and I would never get a job with this on my resume, but it was almost exactly what he wanted. What do you think?
Well he just signed online and the site that I made wasn’t what he needs because it wasn’t exactly what he had in mind. Basically what he wanted was something that so rediculously wrong that I couldn’t make it like that. The images take forever to load (even on my dsl network) and there is so much crap that was wrong with the original and I couldn’t do everything that he wanted in the time that I had to make it. So this is what he’s getting. It showcases all of his work so I really don’t nkow what he’s crying about. Actually what it does is showcases all of his work in a faster more easily navigated website. But it wasn’t what he had in mind so its worng. **** HIM! I hate working for my friends…pisses me off…
Beta & Don: Thanks for agreeing with me about the site. Its crap. Each page takes forever because of the images that he used for the backgrounds and everything.
Also, H88 gave me that avatar and I modified it. THe one I had originally was similar but it had smaller eyes. H88 showed me this one, I downloaded it and added the crazy eyes for kicks… I think it looks really good now.
The site was pretty done for being done in a mere 8 hours.
Overall it wasn’t that great, but the time put into it, and the fact that it wasn’t you that did the images (so they couldn’t properly be optimized) it wasn’t that bad…lol.
Jubba
i dont think the web site is that bad. infact i dont think its bad at all. may be it s the view point which makes the difference i mean you people are pros and i am a rooqi so might be that but it “not bad” in its class. besides the time you put in it i gues it is worth mentioning on your resume. And guys how do you get different avators.
Sintax: Thats pretty much the point I’m at. I feel bad because he needed it for school but he didn’t really give me that much notice and there wasn’t much I could do in one day. I would like to make it better but it would take me a couple weeks to do what he wanted because I have tests and stuff to study for.
As it is, yesterday I didn’t go to any of my classes just so I could make this site for him. I got so frustrated with the files that he sent me that I was flipping out on my roommate, his girlfriend, my girlfriend… He sent me folders that had files everywhere! All over the place. The file names were “live music.jpg” or “line space experiment.jpg” that wouldn’t be so bad if it had an underscore ( _ ) between the words, but coding for spaces is a pain in the ass and I had to go thru and change almost 135 file names just to get all that stuff to work… Oh well…he gets what he pays for.
Don: Yes I have randomly loading graphics for my footer. I’ll take a look at the font. thank you.
DeafDumBlind: Thank you. I agree that this site is decent as far as some go. I mean its much better than the majority of websites out there, but I know that I could have done much better. And I am not a ‘pro’ web designer. I do this in my spare time, and just for fun. I do not consider myself good, or even moderately good. I have a long way to go before I am even decent. We are all rookies.
Yeah Jubba it’s not bad for the tme you spet on it. While others had to wait a while, the site loaded fast for me. Good work, and you’re a great friend for doing that!
hmm, so i’m not seeing things! WHAT A RELIEF… =)
I too would have skipped school to do something for a friend…hell i skip for absolutely no reason… :sleep:
