Once more I find myself spending lots of time not posting on the blog, a
shame really. Basically I have way too many things going on right now,
which naturally takes time away from writing about developing (or any
other rant area). While that's bad for this blog it's great for me
though.
I do feel like posting a quick thought, though. I'm currently working on
a nice project, fairly big - building a site from scratch for a specific
community. I'm also doing the design for it (rather, my fiancee and I
are doing the design) and as part of this I've been struggling with
Ubuntu. So far, for designing, I've been using Gimp. It's a great tool
but there are some areas in which it really lags far behind other tools
of the trade. To name just a couple: layers (no grouping capability) and
text (if you want a piece of text to have different formats, you have to
break it into several pieces each of which must be formatted separately
- as far as I can make out). So, while making a design is more or less
ok, tweaking it on the other hand is massive pain.http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
into the mix you get a nice combo: the major shares of the "good"
browsers support the features in CSS3 that I need. Of course, one should
still make sure things look good in IE, but as far as I can tell this is
fairly easily done using IE specific styling (filters as it happens) and
should work without problems on IE7+ (and likely IE6 too but given the
usage stats for that I don't even have to care any more). That means
tweaking mockups much faster than using apps like Gimp - just move an
element or two around a bit and tweak some CSS properties and done.
Am I a happy camper? Yes!
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