Archive for the ‘coding’ tag
How I Became a Front-end Developer
In the first quarter of 2004 I was employed as a truck driver for Moynihan Lumber in Beverly, Massachusetts. My job was to deliver new doors, windows, and lumber to contractors and homeowners in the process of remodeling or building a home in the Eastern Massachusetts area.
I would arrive at the warehouse at 7 a.m., fill up a 24′ box truck with the first round of orders, and be out on the road making deliveries by 9 a.m. Shortly after lunch I would come back to the warehouse with an empty truck and fill it up with a second round of orders. By about 5 p.m., that second round of orders would be delivered and I would go home.
Lets go back in time some more, all the way back to 1999.
Accessible Table Markup Demonstration
Here is a quick demonstration of an average table written with accessibility in mind. While tables can be much more complex than this, I feel that this example represents a lower level of complexity most commonly used today. For more complex table demonstrations, lets have a quick search in Google.
Dreamweaver Works for Me
In 2001 I learned how to write HTML using Microsoft Front Page while taking a Web Design and Development course at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. Because of its terrible code support and counterintuitive user interface, it wasn’t very long before I knew that Front Page was the wrong application for me.
The next application I tried was Macromedia Dreamweaver, which is now Adobe Dreamweaver, somewhere around version 4. Years were spent using Dreamweaver and I was always quite satisfied with it. During that time I would often be told by so-called veteran developers that “Dreamweaver is for amateurs” and that I should “step up to a non-WYSIWYG editor, etc.”
