EYESTRAIN.... burning, oh joy.
I know what it's from though.
I just spent several hours (was that really all, actually felt like longer!) formatting text for this web page I'm working on for Airshow (the mastering studio).
More precisely, formatting the code that formats the text, to make it uniform through the whole page.
Long story, something like this:
Broad but mostly valid generalization--
Studios work on Macs. I work on PC's.
The studio doesn't seem to have a proper html editing program on their computers, and editing in Word on a Mac seems to do very weird things to the code, compared to what I'm used to. Even better, it doesn't seem to do the same things all the time. In fact, sometimes I was able to open the web page in Word and it opened into an html-editing type of interface, with an option to type in and format what you want, and an option to go to the code view and manually code it. Like what I'm used to using GoLive. However, sometimes Word would only open the page, saved in the form of an html file, as a text file showing the code, and then as soon as I made a change, it would only save it as a) a text file, or b) a "web page" the contents of which only opened, even in Explorer or Safari, as a text file showing the code. No more web page...
So. Instead of fighting all of that, I'm basically doing this page at my house on days I'm not at the studio. Which is fine with me, lets me spend more of my time at the studio in actual sessions, and impresses them that I'm willing to do work for them on my own time at home. (I'm trying to turn this internship into at least a freelance job at this place, hence the constant stress on impressing them!)
But, the problem is, the page was originally coded on a Mac, so the text that was there has a Mac's form of formatting commands in the code. Then the day I got Word to function as an editor, I coded more of it on the Mac. Now I have the page here at the house, and I'm editing on my PC, and the work I'm doing is formatting the code the way I'm used to, not in the Mac form. And my GoLive program is acting very strange with integrating the Mac code into any changes I make. In other words, it isn't happy and isn't working properly, and things like boldface, line spacing, etc, are showing up inconsistently or not at all, when I make a change to a line of text.
So, I've just been through the ENTIRE page, finding the pieces of code which work properly, including the bits the Mac seems to want there, cause presumably this page is going to be edited/added to back on a Mac in the future, and formatting every single line of text, consistently, in that format. Had to be done, since the program didn't seem to want to do it automatically, and kept changing around my formatting for various lines, due to other bits I hadn't fixed or taken out or made consistent yet.
It's working now, with all my little picky spacings consistent between every line and section. I'm much happier with the page. I still have to paste in the correct links to Amazon.com for many of the book titles, but even doing that is going to be far easier now that the code is uniform and the template for the little javascript leading to each link is already in place for each title. I shouldn't have to add or re-do any formatting, just cut and paste in the correct link for each book title.
Of course, I say "shouldn't," because who knows what the program might decide to jumble around in the code next time I open it! But, so far, so good, I got a lot done on it today, and I feel much better about handing off to the next person who might work on it, a web page with nice, neat code. I'd be ticked if I had gotten it in the shape it was before I fixed all this up, and I wouldn't want to do that to someone who might maintain the page after me.
Meanwhile though, my eyes are definitely wanting a break from hours of scanning messy messy lines of code to make them into neat lines of consistently-formatted code.
I think I might just get off the computer for a bit, or at the very least, look at pictures instead of text for a while!
I know what it's from though.
I just spent several hours (was that really all, actually felt like longer!) formatting text for this web page I'm working on for Airshow (the mastering studio).
More precisely, formatting the code that formats the text, to make it uniform through the whole page.
Long story, something like this:
Broad but mostly valid generalization--
Studios work on Macs. I work on PC's.
The studio doesn't seem to have a proper html editing program on their computers, and editing in Word on a Mac seems to do very weird things to the code, compared to what I'm used to. Even better, it doesn't seem to do the same things all the time. In fact, sometimes I was able to open the web page in Word and it opened into an html-editing type of interface, with an option to type in and format what you want, and an option to go to the code view and manually code it. Like what I'm used to using GoLive. However, sometimes Word would only open the page, saved in the form of an html file, as a text file showing the code, and then as soon as I made a change, it would only save it as a) a text file, or b) a "web page" the contents of which only opened, even in Explorer or Safari, as a text file showing the code. No more web page...
So. Instead of fighting all of that, I'm basically doing this page at my house on days I'm not at the studio. Which is fine with me, lets me spend more of my time at the studio in actual sessions, and impresses them that I'm willing to do work for them on my own time at home. (I'm trying to turn this internship into at least a freelance job at this place, hence the constant stress on impressing them!)
But, the problem is, the page was originally coded on a Mac, so the text that was there has a Mac's form of formatting commands in the code. Then the day I got Word to function as an editor, I coded more of it on the Mac. Now I have the page here at the house, and I'm editing on my PC, and the work I'm doing is formatting the code the way I'm used to, not in the Mac form. And my GoLive program is acting very strange with integrating the Mac code into any changes I make. In other words, it isn't happy and isn't working properly, and things like boldface, line spacing, etc, are showing up inconsistently or not at all, when I make a change to a line of text.
So, I've just been through the ENTIRE page, finding the pieces of code which work properly, including the bits the Mac seems to want there, cause presumably this page is going to be edited/added to back on a Mac in the future, and formatting every single line of text, consistently, in that format. Had to be done, since the program didn't seem to want to do it automatically, and kept changing around my formatting for various lines, due to other bits I hadn't fixed or taken out or made consistent yet.
It's working now, with all my little picky spacings consistent between every line and section. I'm much happier with the page. I still have to paste in the correct links to Amazon.com for many of the book titles, but even doing that is going to be far easier now that the code is uniform and the template for the little javascript leading to each link is already in place for each title. I shouldn't have to add or re-do any formatting, just cut and paste in the correct link for each book title.
Of course, I say "shouldn't," because who knows what the program might decide to jumble around in the code next time I open it! But, so far, so good, I got a lot done on it today, and I feel much better about handing off to the next person who might work on it, a web page with nice, neat code. I'd be ticked if I had gotten it in the shape it was before I fixed all this up, and I wouldn't want to do that to someone who might maintain the page after me.
Meanwhile though, my eyes are definitely wanting a break from hours of scanning messy messy lines of code to make them into neat lines of consistently-formatted code.
I think I might just get off the computer for a bit, or at the very least, look at pictures instead of text for a while!