Deadline met

One big step in the course work is to make the portal(s). The teacher set the deadline for us to make the pages to be Sept 1. By now of course I’ve made my pages. I don’t know how I can show it on the blog, and I don’t really want to. But I can say that I am reasonably satisfied. The only thing that bugs me is the contrast between the grey text and the lighter grey background is not big enough.

I haven’t tested the pages thoroughly in IE, only had a brief look. My main browser for coding is Flock for Mac (with the Developer’s Toolbar extension installed). Of course I care about the 3% of Safari users (that’s including me) so I tested it in Safari too. So I have covered the 2nd and 3rd used browsers in the world but not the 1st. It might have big troubles in IE but I don’t know yet.

One thing I thought funny was I can’t judge how beautiful/usable my pages are. I thought that with my years of experience on the internet browsing good and bad sites, I can identify if a page is good or not. But no, my pages went through a few big and small design changes, but I can’t say if those changes are for the better. I guess it’s just hard to judge one’s own work impartially.