What do you fear the most when making a project/website?

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What do you fear the most when making a project/website?

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Hi Guys,

Like the subject reads: when it comes to making your project/website for the project etc. what do you fear the most? (PICK ONE)

1) Not having enough space to fit all the information you have?
OR
2) Having a lot of space but not enough to fill it?

Right now, I am facing fear #1....

I have a lot of content (that needs to be on the same page... cannot break it down) but do not have enough space on the screen.

If I want to include a left side menu, then I cannot have a three-column view.
and If I reduce it to two column view of the page, then the content will make the page grow big (scroll vertically)

Hmm....

Thinking about Tabbing the whole darn thing. But then, tabbing will be as same as breaking it into several pages....
What do you think?

-Matt
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Post by Benjamin »

You may want to read my article on writing web site content..

http://astions.com/writing_web_content.php

It sounds like you've got way too much, or that it's poorly organized.
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1) Not having enough space to fit all the information you have?
Well, I know a few sites you can learn how to do that.. just visit one of them 96's portal sites :)
Hmmm, maybe I don't remember which those are cause I didn't visit them since '98.
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I can't design for the life of me!

with me it's like this:

98% coding/scripting 2% Designing/UI

When I will post my site for critique, you will be able to see what I mean ;(

But, hopefully I will have all my issues resovled way before that.

-Matt
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...clients that demand the world in a tea-cup.
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feyd wrote:...clients that demand the world in a tea-cup.
That's easy. Teas are usually blended from leaves all over the world.
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Re: What do you fear the most when making a project/website?

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matt1019 wrote:what do you fear the most?
Having to work on legacy systems without a unit test in sight.
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sweatje wrote:Having to work on legacy systems without a unit test in sight.
Yes.. that could make for some nightmares.
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Code that isn't mine. All code that I deal with not written by me is horrible. Mine isn't that great, so it's saying alot. I can hardly work through it.
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... clients who are not sure what planet they are on and can't make up their mind what they want to drink.
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I fear i wont finish it.
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

At the moment I fear my major client is going to get bored of waiting for me to finish writing OsisForms before I work on his project :S

Back on topic:
I don't fear either of those things as such, but that must be because I feel like I am in control when I am designing interfaces UNLESS...I'm drowning in a mountain of content a client has given me with vague and ambigious instructions as to how it should be organised, that's a lot more scarey.
Having to work on legacy systems without a unit test in sight.
I can't stand legacy code, I usually end up rewriting. You have yet another highlighted reason for me to get into TDD there.
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Post by matt1019 »

Haha, thanks for the replies guys.

Fortunately, you all are on the "other" side.... I am one of those who needs to "Learn" how to design User interfaces. OR ELSE, my 3years of work will be down in the drain... in matter of seconds.... ummm check that... in matter of milliseconds :(

Why couldn't I have been 50% coder /50% designer ?

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Post by matthijs »

I can't design for the life of me!

with me it's like this:

98% coding/scripting 2% Designing/UI
Why couldn't I have been 50% coder /50% designer ?
I have the solution for you. 50% may be ambitious, but a lot more then 2% is within handreach: Non-Designer's Design Book

Have fun :)
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Re: What do you fear the most when making a project/website?

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matt1019 wrote:what do you fear the most?
starting off in another job like this one....when i started the company was supposed to be hosting in home and the boss thought that we were but we werent(my supervisor lied about it) i couldent use any of the languages i knew only the basics(html,css,javascript) because i didnt have access to the server to set anything up and my supervisor didnt know how to even set up a web server, so 9 months later here i am...doing it all wearing the hat of my supers and my own....work sucks :(
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