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Posted by Egor 
· December 14, 2008 
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Out With the Old

My creaky, antiquated web development methodologies were beginning to show their (and my) age. After spending the better part of 2008 convincing myself that this simply infused my web sites with a certain quaint “charm,” some recent modifications to my business model dictated that I get on with the renovation.

Of course, I didn’t enter the modern age of web design without a fight. After spending the last 10-12 years laboriously coding my own sites, I wasn’t ready to give up control to a bunch of structured, open-source Web 2.0 techniques. Nope. I had my own way of doing things, and I didn’t want my site looking like every other Web 2.0 site. So I cracked open Dreamweaver CS4, rolled up my sleeves, and got to coding. It took only about 15 minutes before I was programming “over my head.” Since I’m more of a “sit on the edge of the pool and dip my feet in the water” kind of web programmer, I tend to thrash around whenever I enter the deep end of the programming pool. And, for me, the deep end means anything beyond basic HTML and CSS.

After about a week of struggling, I’d created a site structure that I rather liked. It looked great in both Safari and Firefox on my Mac. It looked great in Firefox on my PC. In IE7, it started to resemble a “cubist” representation of a website and, in IE6, it was more Jackson Pollock than Pablo Picasso. So I dove back into the deep end and, after another week of thrashing about, I was no closer to having that architecturally beautiful website running on that abomination known as “Internet Explorer.” Regrettably, I knew that over half my clients would be accessing this site through either IE6 or IE7, so there was only one thing left to do: surrender to the call of Web 2.0.

I now know that, not only was resistance futile, but it was stupid. I installed WordPress on my website and, using the highly-customizable iThemes Flexx template, the site was up and functioning (essentially) the way I needed. Sure, it lacks the visual pizazz of my beautiful though IE-hostile effort. But, the very fact that I no longer need to stay up until 5:00am trying to find work-arounds to Internet Explorer bugs means I can do what I’m supposed to do — photography.

So with this post, I present the latest incarnation of the ULTRAsomething photography site. And, as a reminder to myself — don’t be so stubborn to adapt to the ways of Web 3.0 when that day inevitably comes.


©2008 grEGORy simpson

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