Web Design
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Anyone who’s been in the business of web design for long enough—and does a good job of it—should be wholly familiar with the pie chart showing Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design. If the graphic isn’t available[1], the list is:
- Time spent actually designing anything (2%)
- Time spent trying to get the layout to work using only CSS before giving up and using tables (20%)
- Swearing (15%)
- Time spent trying to get the bastard to work in Internet fucking Explorer (40%)
- Time spent wishing a slow, painful death on Bill Gates and more swearing (10%)
- Time spent looking for that one extra space character in the Javascript that Firefox is throwing a wobbly over[2] (10%)
- Time spent making the site W3C compliant (3%)
[1] I’m not going to copy original work from another blog.↩
[2] “Throwing a wobbly” must be a quaint, British (or Canadian) way of saying “pitching a fit” or “throwing a hissy fit”. Or maybe some parts of America (I’m looking at you, Minnesota) are much weirder than I thought.↩