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[alliemunkee.livejournal.com]

I have to have a rant about this friend. She's 17, and is at tafe getting her Cert III Information Technology, where they teach you the shit you need to know to get into the techie, administration, helpdesk, "information technology" jobs. She shall be known from hereon as J. J wants to be a web designer...

I was on MSN minding my own business. She IMed me and linked me to a band's myspace page, asking if it loaded funny. I had a look and said it was fine, what's up? She said there were strange boxes all over the page. Myspace layouts mainly use CSS, and I remembered another techie friend saying earlier that IE fucks CSS up badly. So I asked J if she was using FireFox, and J said no. *Headdesk* She uses FireFox in her Cert III IT course, I have told her so many times not to use IE and to use FireFox, gave it and a number of antivirus & spyware programs to her last time she brought her computer over for me to fix. Oh yeah, because my dad's an expert computer technician, means that I'm everyone's free techie too. Bastards.

So I told her that was her problem; and to switch to FireFox right away and she'd be able to see the content properly. She insisted on sending me a screenshot, and here it is:



That is indeed a shot from her camera phone. Keep in mind that she is in her last semester, last unit of Cert III IT, and wants to be a web designer. Oy vey. You ought to see the website she made with Dreamweaver to show a potential employer.


Really.

Comments

[falnfenix]

she probably "likes computers" because she's on the internet all day and haven't realized that jobs in "computers" deal with more than just the intartoobs.

[falnfenix]

haven't = hasn't. i need caffeine.

[fixerkitty.livejournal.com]

My mind truly boggles at this...

[superbus.livejournal.com]

When I make recommendations to people, "never use IE again" never comes up. Yes, if she's testing web design, she should have all browsers for testing purposes (including Opera; hell, I'd even include the bastardized version of Mozilla that comes with Seamonkey), but if IE is her preference, it's just that: a preference.

Personally, though she's a bit pushy, she's young, and will improve. She's given a shitty template to work with on MySpace.

[bekscilla.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D I appreciate someone else saying "let em use whichever browser they prefer". Personally, I use IE because I support it, and I prefer to use stuff I support.

And I agree, she's 17! She's just young, she'll learn. I did the same course as her, she'll learn a lot more in class (though, why you'd do Cert III, I don't know. Unless it's part of completing Cert IV or the diploma. It's like 6 months less than Cert IV)

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

she sounds like someone my company would hire in a heartbeat <3

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

MySpace Page Not Professionally Designed, Film At 11

[kizayaen.livejournal.com]

+1

[xforge.livejournal.com]

+101

[mouser.livejournal.com]

+10101

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

*splorf*

[red-scully.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, for the fail. So much fail.

And also, I *hate* Dreamweaver. Shudder.

[alliemunkee.livejournal.com]

So do I.

Notepad/Gedit FTEW.

[dukesnorre.livejournal.com]

Tchhh. VIM (http://www.vim.org) is what you want! Also, if some should come bearing words of emacs, know that they are heathens and infidels out to ... to ... whatever bad things heathens and infidels do!



PS: This is not an editor holy war. :)

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

If you're going to be masochistic about it why not just copy con? ;)

btw heathens and infidels have more fun :)

[wherdafux-d-cat.livejournal.com]

edlin!!!

[lordchaos.livejournal.com]

I kind of want to see her website now...