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I can’t believe I pulled through last week. More so on the fact that I left my blog unattended for half-a-month. Half-a-godforsaken-month! By the blogosphere’s standards, fifteen days is an eternity.
But in the week before, eternity was seven days.
I did the impossible. I redesigned and coded a website in three days, complete with a presentation and reports on the fourth day. I had four bloody tests that week alone. I had to cover a nine mind-boggling chapters of Physics in two days, just so I wouldn’t fail all that badly. All that, with my parents overseas for the week.
The screenshot I posted before (in the previous post) of the IT website project I was working on, was how it looked like in its earlier stages. I took a very conservative approach in the design, with an all-too-typical two column layout coded with simple html and css. No flash, no Ajaxy stuff, no nothing. Plain, barebones. When Ms. Marlene looked through it for the first time with her lips pursed, it was clear she was anything but satisfied.
Her soaring expectations for our group required me to return to the drawing board for real and cook up something new. The deadline was just three days away.
With the help of iced coffee and lots of patience, I redesigned and recoded everything from scratch. Leaving no room for any pursed lips.
Luckily for me and my sanity, the redesign appealed to her.
I did plan to upload the website for you folks to play around with, but I hadn’t got the time to optimize the load times and do some serious bug-squashing. For believe me when I say the rushed work is plagued with bugs. But its amazing what you can achieve in three days.
Physics though, makes you realise how much can’t you achieve in a day. Covering 9 chapters in two days for a Physics test is a definite no-no. I had learn that the hard way. =(
Welp. If there’s anything good that came out of the week before, it would be Coldplay’s new album.
Viva la Vida just sounds so epic! I swear my laptop would shut on me if I ever double-click on that track again. Not to mention Strawberry Swing, a rather joyous take on the usual melancholic nature of Coldplay’s works. I swear I thought the instrument used in the intro of Strawberry Swing was the sape
With the finals coming up next week, it seems that time is and always has been, against us.
Oh well, Coldplay is here to cast me into oblivion.
Cue African guitar beats ala Strawberry Swing,
“It’s suuu-ch… It’s su-ch a perfect day.”
OMG COLDPLAY HAS A NEW ALBUM!?!?!?!?!
Seems like my daily blasting of Viva la Vida isn’t loud enough for you in your cave. =P
Best stuff of 2008 man!
nice not? (pssst, who’s coldplay?)
Coldplay? Its a milk-powder brand. =D
Highly recommended for those who don’t know what brand they’re drinking.
Seriously man, Coldplay? Chris Martin? His unmistakable voice? C’mon, go get their new album!
envy ur designing skills.. really man.. wish I could do such wonderful graphics like you have done.. its just awesome..
If only I could do my site like yours..
Why thanks! =)
Its not that hard, really. Once you know Photoshop, the ideas just.. pour in. Literally. XD