You know what grinds my gears? Dealing with videos on the Web.

I tried to do something that I thought was simple: I added a video section to the gallery. With the advent of sites like YouTube and Google Video, I thought that hosting my own videos for the world to see would be much easier. How wrong I was.

I was just about to begin a rant, but I just don’t have the energy right now. I know when I’ve been beaten. If you want to check out my 6-second video of my Xbox 360 sitting next to my monitor, be my guest. Be sure to use IE though. Firefox will tell you to install Quicktime to view the video: this is a lie. Do not believe it, or risk wasting an hour of your life uninstalling and reinstalling QT and rebooting your PC and seeing that it didn’t work and searching on the web only to find that the universal answer to this problem is “install Quicktime,” which is a lie but you fall for it again anyway and waste another hour of your life… I think you get my meaning.

Next time, I’ll just upload to YouTube and embed it here like I did last time.

To you web designers that deal with clients, I have to give you your due props.

On occassion, I am required to update stylesheets, images, and other related design elements. It is amazing how picky a client can be about the positioning of a block of text or other elements on a page. “Just move it over a little bit to the left” and “That looks misaligned to me” and “Can you reduce that by a couple of pixels?” are just samples of statements that I’ve heard and spent hours trying to comply with.

I applaud you designers out there that have the patience and skill to make pages look just right.

Edit: Moved from original willdiaz.com site.

Before I became a professional web developer (a whole seven months ago), I didn’t have a solid grasp on what a content management system was. The name kinda explains itself, but I really didn’t see how they related to the job. Before being hired at my current company, I put together a quick example of how I would make a homebrew CMS work and put it on the old version of this site. It was terribly simple, but it demonstrated that I knew what I was doing.

Now, I have enough experience with them to formulate educated opinions on some of them:

• I love Wordpress, and will continue to sing its praises.
• I like Joomla, a variant of Mambo.
• I am intrigued by Drupal and Movable Type. I have very little experience with both, but I am playing with them.
• I hate ezPublish and TypePad (a watered-down Movable Type).

I’ll update with my reasons later.

Edit: Moved from original willdiaz.com site.