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June 6, 2004

Beta Testing

I am a bit of an avid gamer and love to beta test upcoming games. For anyone who doesn't know Beta Testers work for the game developers testing games before they are launched and mostly whilst the game is in development. Our job is to find all those pesky bugs that neither developer nor gamer want to find in the final product, and also to offer feedback in the form of both praise and criticism to the developers. This process affords the makers the opportunity to fix any issues.

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Posted by Vic at 12:08 PM

Vic and css

Wow things have changed. What was acceptable in web coding 4 years ago is by no means acceptable now. As anyone who visits (or used to visit) our little web-site knows, I didn't update it very regularly and eventually out of frustration Mark took it over and then updated it even less! So it's been a number of years since I have done any web-design or coding. Recently though, an online buddy from Guild of Greeters exposed me to the joys of cascading style sheets (css) and server side includes (ssi). That little intro was enough to whet my appetite to learn more, and once I started I was bitten by the old html bug that I had years ago.

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Posted by Vic at 11:37 AM

December 5, 2000

Vic and HTML

My first encounter with web design was whilst I worked at Sizma Plc back in the UK. We had some server space from our ISP that wasn't being used, so in my quiet moments (which were few and far between) I set about designing a basic website for the company using Microsoft Publisher. Everyone was very impressed with the end result.... except Mark! Whilst he was impressed with the look and content of the site, he (as the perfectionist that he is) was less impressed that I had used a WYSIWYG editor. And he encouraged me to learn how to write in HTML saying that it was easy, "Easy for you" I thought, "but me? I doubt it". He said he knew I could do it and went out and bought me four books. Well I still wasn't convinced and managed to come up with a multitude of reasons for never getting round to actually opening the books! "I don't have the spare time with working, and looking after a house and husband" "I'm too stressed from work, to study in the evening" When it comes to finding an excuse not to study then I am the master! and consequently I never "got round" to starting this adventure in learning!

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Posted by Vic at 4:31 PM