Hello, World!
My name is Ire (pronounced e-ray), and I am a freelance web designer/developer from Lagos, Nigeria. Growing up, I was always really interested in technology and the internet. I made my first website in 2005 when I was 14 (a fan page for Neopets, if you were wondering).
Over the years, I have dabbled in web design and development as a hobby, making some poorly designed websites and writing some pretty awful code. Because I never got a fully formal developer education, there were a few things that I didn’t know, and I didn’t know that I didn’t know them. As an example, I only discovered CSS pre-processors about a year ago, and it has literally transformed my workflow since!
Nowadays, I have improved a lot in my skill. I’m plugged in to as many designer and hacker news outlets as I can to make sure that I’m doing things right. Even so, there are still things that I don’t know. Whether that is due to the ever changing nature of the industry, or the fact that I work alone, I am constantly learning new things to improve my craft. And I can’t be the only one.
So I have decided to start this blog, “bits of code”, where I share my ever growing knowledge about web development. Particularly little code bits that, as a developer, you could get away with not writing, but you should. Or things that you may be writing but don’t really understand why. I’m sure there will be things I just learn that pretty much all developers already know about, but I guess I have accepted that I might look stupid!
As I am currently a designer and front-end developer, most of my posts will be related to those areas. However, I am aiming to be full-stack and am learning Ruby as well. I hope to do one of those Rails challenges at some point during the year.
A Credit #
I was inspired to start this blog by Jonathan Cutrell and John Sonmez in Episode 21 of Developer Tea. If you are a developer and haven’t already, go listen to this now!
My First Website #
In the interest of looking stupid, here is one of my first websites I created back in 2005. I only have the test version I created, but you get the general idea.
The design is actually not awful! I guess you can't go too wrong with a minimal site. But the code..
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>&spooke designs.</title>
<style type="text/css">
.banner {position:absolute; overflow: none; left: 50px; top:35px;}
.content {position:absolute; overflow: auto; left: 210px; top:193px; width:490px; height:800px}
.nav {position: absolute; overflow: none; left: 56px; top:193px; width:137px; height:800px}
font, body, td{font-family: small fonts; font-size: 7pt; color: #000000;}
a:link, a:visited, a:active {font-family: small fonts; font-size: 7pt; color: #000000;}
a:hover {font-family: small fonts; font-size: 7pt; color: #000000;}
body {background: url("file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator.IREOLUWA/Desktop/spooke/background.bmp");
font-size: 7pt;
font-family:"small fonts"; color: #D4A274;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
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<img style="width: 766px; height: 148px;" alt="" src="banner2.PNG"></div>
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So many things...
I hope you enjoyed my first post. Please leave a comment down below if you have any questions or comments.