Comments on: Traffic Light Therapy http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/ Flipflops.org is about web development and fairly conceptual art Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:01:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Darfuria http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9415 Darfuria Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:15:36 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9415 Yeah, you need to full halves to make a whole, I guess. Yeah, you need to full halves to make a whole, I guess.

]]> By: Flipflops http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9409 Flipflops Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:56:39 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9409 Well. The 'package' (as they say) ain't bad... But what is nice nice is working with a seriously good designer. Sounds silly - but I had forgotten how satisfying just cutting up PSDs and building CMS templates can be. When somebody has though about all the details properly everything just flows. I'm doing a biggish e-commerce site at the moment, and I have 4 PSDs for Homepage, Categories, Product List, Product Detail - everything has been thought out - it is so nice - a real contrast - you have no idea of the muppets I have had to deal with in the past year. Seriously some people have no shame. But the really weird thing is that people pay for designs built by these jokers - all I can think is blackmail is the cause of it all... A few months ago I built a site for an estate agency (timing sucks!) - it had some of the most elegant code I have ever written to do with searching, paging results and sessions to store search criteria - but the design I was given to work with is so bad I am ashamed, and I will never admit I had anything to do with it. Well. The ‘package’ (as they say) ain’t bad…

But what is nice nice is working with a seriously good designer. Sounds silly – but I had forgotten how satisfying just cutting up PSDs and building CMS templates can be.

When somebody has though about all the details properly everything just flows. I’m doing a biggish e-commerce site at the moment, and I have 4 PSDs for Homepage, Categories, Product List, Product Detail – everything has been thought out – it is so nice – a real contrast – you have no idea of the muppets I have had to deal with in the past year. Seriously some people have no shame.

But the really weird thing is that people pay for designs built by these jokers – all I can think is blackmail is the cause of it all…

A few months ago I built a site for an estate agency (timing sucks!) – it had some of the most elegant code I have ever written to do with searching, paging results and sessions to store search criteria – but the design I was given to work with is so bad I am ashamed, and I will never admit I had anything to do with it.

]]> By: Darfuria http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9408 Darfuria Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:55:05 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9408 Ah okay. Getting more money then? :) Ah okay.

Getting more money then? :)

]]> By: Flipflops http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9407 Flipflops Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:38:00 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9407 Hello no. Wouldn't work there if you paid me. I'm in Taunton. Hello no. Wouldn’t work there if you paid me. I’m in Taunton.

]]> By: Darfuria http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9406 Darfuria Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:37:56 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9406 You're working in Marsh Barton aren't you? You're right, they do nothing! You’re working in Marsh Barton aren’t you?

You’re right, they do nothing!

]]> By: Flipflops http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9405 Flipflops Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:53:38 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9405 Hi. Same here that's the way traffic lights normally work here too. But I think they just disable them at peak times, or even on really complicated junctions that the buttons are basically fake. Maybe it's becuase if people thought the walk / don't walk buttons were pointless, they would just ignore them and run accross rather than waiting... Hi. Same here that’s the way traffic lights normally work here too. But I think they just disable them at peak times, or even on really complicated junctions that the buttons are basically fake. Maybe it’s becuase if people thought the walk / don’t walk buttons were pointless, they would just ignore them and run accross rather than waiting…

]]> By: Silver Knight http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/comment-page-1/#comment-9404 Silver Knight Tue, 12 Aug 2008 08:44:44 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2008/08/11/traffic-light-therapy/#comment-9404 I don't know about where you live, but where I live, the buttons do one (and exactly one) thing, and nothing else. When you press the button, the "walk/don't walk" light changes when the traffic light changes. If you do not press the button, the traffic light will change, but the "walk/don't walk" light stays on "don't walk". Pretty pointless piece of equipment, really. I don’t know about where you live, but where I live, the buttons do one (and exactly one) thing, and nothing else. When you press the button, the “walk/don’t walk” light changes when the traffic light changes. If you do not press the button, the traffic light will change, but the “walk/don’t walk” light stays on “don’t walk”. Pretty pointless piece of equipment, really.

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