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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 11:19:19
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Having been taught the bare basics of web editing during my studies, and figuring that anyone who's someone these days nees a website, I made my first website to introduce yours truely 3 to 4 years ago.  I had all this cool idea's about how it should be, fading in here, out there, scrolling, mouseovering, err... 'div'ing, and whatnot.  Suffice to say that both the lack of time and skill killed much of what I had in mind.

But over time, and more so the last year, the need to update my website has arosen.  I mean really, what's the point in having a website if it doesn't show any of your works?  So after a few false starts in which I simply couldn't spend the time re-learning webcoding and searching the web for what I needed, I finally pulled through in the last couple of weeks.  I even managed to realize my vision on how I wanted to present my works.  It has some ancient javascript in there, drowned out by the rest of the sloppy coding, but it gets the job done.  So yeah, without further ado: www.yvt.be .  It's in dutch, so it won't make sense to the lot of  you, but hey, I don't know anyone that'd be able to appreciate/scrutinize my hard work.  Next up: getting the thing to actually show up on google when you search for my name.

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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:32:23
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I hate html and internet coding in general, I think it should be WYSIWYG instead but the compatibility fails with them.

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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:49:22
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I, in general, don't condone with the wysiwyg school of thought.  It does away with the element of wonder towards the matter.  When people see that something is easy to 'do', they also assume it requires little expertise to do it well.
Wysiwyg also has limitations.  It'll work fine for run of the mill stuff, but if you want to do something specific, you still need to get your hands dirty.
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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:19:01
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Learning HTML just felt like busting my ass to put a column in the right place. I was pretty good at it, better than anyone else in the class but I still couldn't get a website to look the way I wanted it too. And coding is just too abstract for me, laying down all this written symbols, letters and numbers referencing everything else. It really is like learning a new language.

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Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:57:22
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Scumbag SupremeAC: Talks about HTML, doesn't actually make his URL a link.

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Tue, 24 Sep 2013 08:34:14
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It's a precaution so that the NSA doesn't catch wind of me.  Can't be too carefull these days.
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Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:00:47
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Do you want me to read it and critize it?

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Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:34:45
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Heh, i just noticed you're from Holland yesterday...  Lets just say I'm more proud of the graphic design than the actual writing itself  Nyaa
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Wed, 25 Sep 2013 20:46:20
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gamingeek said:

Learning HTML just felt like busting my ass to put a column in the right place. I was pretty good at it, better than anyone else in the class but I still couldn't get a website to look the way I wanted it too. And coding is just too abstract for me, laying down all this written symbols, letters and numbers referencing everything else. It really is like learning a new language.

Man kids these days are spoilt.  When I was at university I had to teach myself LaTeX which basically meant I had to write a program to produce a paper in pdf or ps (because it had lots of integrals and other cool maths that look like shit in word).  And that was something I had to do in two afternoons as an aside to the actual work I was doing.

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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:06:55
I don't know who of you was better off though.  They 'thaught' us a cad program, but managed to do such a bad job at it, that everyone thought it was absolute shit.  Most even learned autocad on their own, just so they wouldn't have to use the one we were given.  I had to use it later at my first job though, and man, if used properly, that thing was a beast.  Best cad program I've used so far.
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Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:23:11
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I don't know who of you was better off though.  They 'thaught' us a cad program, but managed to do such a bad job at it, that everyone thought it was absolute shit.  Most even learned autocad on their own, just so they wouldn't have to use the one we were given.  I had to use it later at my first job though, and man, if used properly, that thing was a beast.  Best cad program I've used so far.

Autocad?! Are you an engineer?

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:21:45
No, I am your cooler alter ego, the architect. Grinning  
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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:39:53
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No, I am your cooler alter ego, the architect. Grinning

Ahh architects, the people that want to be an engineer, but that lack the intelligence to do so. Nyaa

And SolidEdge and Inventor >>>>>> Autocad

Come at me bro!

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:53:32

So are you dutch then sup?

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:02:26
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Ahh architects, the people that want to be an engineer, but that lack the intelligence to do so. Nyaa

And SolidEdge and Inventor >>>>>> Autocad

Come at me bro!

You're just being jealous.

We were taught Arkey at college.  You might know it, it's Dutch.

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:03:24
gamingeek said:

So are you dutch then sup?

I would have been if this was the 16th century  Nyaa  I'm Belgian GG, look at the nice little flag under my avatar.

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:13:45

But didn't you say your site was in Dutch?

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 22:24:07

Well yes.  It's like UK English and American English.  That and if I say 'Flemish', it sounds like I'm feeling ill.

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:11:09
SupremeAC said:
Iga_Bobovic said:

Ahh architects, the people that want to be an engineer, but that lack the intelligence to do so. Nyaa

And SolidEdge and Inventor >>>>>> Autocad

Come at me bro!

You're just being jealous.

We were taught Arkey at college.  You might know it, it's Dutch.

Sure!! I am jealous of being unemployed and sitting at home and not contributing anything to society like most architects here.

Wait, I take that back! Being a hobo is my life long dream. Why must I be so damn useful?! Sad

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Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:17:15
SupremeAC said:
gamingeek said:

So are you dutch then sup?

I would have been if this was the 16th century  Nyaa  I'm Belgian GG, look at the nice little flag under my avatar.

Could you guys please take Noord-Brabant and Limburg?! We don't want them!

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But didn't you say your site was in Dutch?

Come on man. You are English. You guys invented Belgium as a big buffer between France and Germany.

Belgium is not even a country. It is just a big vague border between the Netherlands and France. That is why you have a Dutch speaking part, but with a funny accent, and a French speaking part.

And since France and Germany are BFFs right now, Belgium is completely and utterly useless.

So the only thing you need to know GG is that the Netherlands >> Belgium

And Civil Engineering is the black sheep of Engineering. Well there is Technical Accounting, but we all pretend that it does not exist.

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