Mr Initial Man
01-27-2005, 11:16 AM
I know you almost NEVER hear this stories, but...
Has anybody ever worked with someone who was a joy to work with?
Mine is with a girl, who shall go unnamed. First time I helped her with HTML, her question was "Why do I get a directory listing instead of my main page?" On the Furnation server, if you don't have an index.html or main.html page, you get a directory listing.
I took a look, and I found one html page, called "stargazing.html" When I checked it out, it was the page she wanted. So I wrote back "rename stargazing.html to index.html" So, she was quite happy.
What happened later, I cannot remember. Either I looked at her code, or she asked me what I thought of it, anyways, I looked at her code.
It was one of those pages that started with <html>, fonts tags everywhere, your usual newbie page.
Me: "Okay... what did you use to code this with?"
Her: "Notepad."
Me: "Okay, we are off to a good start, no sarcasm here."
Me: (thinking) .o0(Thank god!)
Her: "Okay."
Me: "I see you didn't use tables in this."
Her: "Well, they looked too complicated, and I didn't understand them."
Me: "Not using tables is a good think."
So, I told her about doctypes, which eliminated browser guessing, how to make things easier, and I said "Lemme recode your page, so you know what I'm talking about."
After recoding her page, she realized what-all I was talking about. But, yeah, she was easy to work with, and eager to learn.
Anyone else have tales like this?
Has anybody ever worked with someone who was a joy to work with?
Mine is with a girl, who shall go unnamed. First time I helped her with HTML, her question was "Why do I get a directory listing instead of my main page?" On the Furnation server, if you don't have an index.html or main.html page, you get a directory listing.
I took a look, and I found one html page, called "stargazing.html" When I checked it out, it was the page she wanted. So I wrote back "rename stargazing.html to index.html" So, she was quite happy.
What happened later, I cannot remember. Either I looked at her code, or she asked me what I thought of it, anyways, I looked at her code.
It was one of those pages that started with <html>, fonts tags everywhere, your usual newbie page.
Me: "Okay... what did you use to code this with?"
Her: "Notepad."
Me: "Okay, we are off to a good start, no sarcasm here."
Me: (thinking) .o0(Thank god!)
Her: "Okay."
Me: "I see you didn't use tables in this."
Her: "Well, they looked too complicated, and I didn't understand them."
Me: "Not using tables is a good think."
So, I told her about doctypes, which eliminated browser guessing, how to make things easier, and I said "Lemme recode your page, so you know what I'm talking about."
After recoding her page, she realized what-all I was talking about. But, yeah, she was easy to work with, and eager to learn.
Anyone else have tales like this?