"Great suggestion Jason – certainly going to be keeping an eye this project with a follow-up in mind. The business story would indeed be an interesting and important addition. "
"Very fair point DanIt's very true that my first foray into from scratch website making hasn't exactly broken from many of the design conventions that are widespread across template and non-template web. Of course, having got my head around the coding, now I want tear it up and start again!That said I still found that "coding my own" gave the flexibility and precision that I was looking for – from big things like structuring sections to the small things like spacing, interactions and even being able to include as many titles/subtitles as I saw fit.Admittedly I haven't tried Muse (put off by past Dreamweaver experiences perhaps) but that sounds like it might be a great optionThanks for your thoughts!"
"Hey Daniel – good questions1. I wonder whether there is something around the particular learning curve of the skills in question. I guess I found with a relatively short time investment in web dev I could get to a level where the practival skill was useful to me and my work, and the knowledge would be put me in good stead for working with any developers I might come across. If we were talking about some much more complex coding then it probably wouldn't have been worth the investment as it would take so much time that my other skills would no doubt be neglected and diluted. This trade off is probably when the collaboration/specialisation comes in.2. Hmm fair point – I appreciate the purist work-should-speak-for-itself argument. Personally, I find that the similarity of sites lowers the perceived value (which professional design agency or indeed any credible organisation uses a template?) and perhaps is also a little less inspiring and intriguing on account of being. I also find that template sites can occasionally be buggy, slow and unpleasant to use. I'm not sure if this is an empirical web fact (anyone?) but thats my experience. On top of that, as an aesthetically sensitive individual, I find template often don't give me the flexibility or accuracy that I'm after – and I was always frustrated knowing I could do better. In fact I think I've spent so long furiously fiddling with Squarespace sliders and drag and drops that I probably should've made the leap earlier!3. It is indeed a WYSIWYG editor, not dissimilar to this comments section. Its an interesting point. I guess there's times when conformity of templates make sense. I'm also fairly sure the site was designed coded from scratch(ish) in the first place for folks like me to input into. Don't think we could accuse Core77 of being a template! :DThanks again Daniel!"
"Just to say...Erik got in touch to mention:
"bone conducting headphones wouldn't directly impair hearing, as they sit on the skullbone rather than inside the ear"
Sir, we were wrong to doubt you."
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