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Though I'm a web designer -Freelancer- ,I was despretaly looking for a job...I'm really not sure of this part...
I'm having an interview -actually a test- on Sunday...and I managed to know about the type of the test.
I will be given a graphic made with PhotoShop and I'll be asked to turn it to html & css,hand coding no tools!?
well I can asure you I'm so confused and scared...
the interviewr told me I'll have to cut the image -with html & css- to be a web page.
(I thought that I'll use firworks to turn the graphic into a web page,but she said no tools)
Any Idea will help m8s...
Thank you
It sounds like they are going to give you an image mock up of a webpage and ask you to reproduce it using html and css - possible hand coding it?
You cannot do what you explained with CSS and HTML. You could do it with PHP or ASP. What would be your role in the job. It may just be a misunderstanding. Can you hand code HTML and CSS?
Thanks for your sweet welcomes m8s...:)
I can hand code yes html.
Css-not so good.
but the strange thing is the idea itself..
she told me" you'll get the image(photoshop) from one end and turn it to a web page using html & css from the other end"...
I should be a web designer . not developer so she told me that no ASP,SQL,PHP required!
I'm confused...& a little bit scared...:O
Give me any text-based graphic with fancy frillies around it, and I'll give, at the least, a decent approximation of it in HTML + CSS.
Here's an example:
<div style="border:2px outset blue; background:blue; text-align:center; width:4em; font-weight:bold; color:white; padding:0 2px">CSS ROCKS!</div>
<div style="volume:silent; position:relative; color:red; font-weight:bolder; width:4em; text-align:center; top:-2.7em; left:-.1em; padding:2px 4px">CSS ROCKS!</div>
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I will be given a graphic made with PhotoShop and I'll be asked to turn it to html & css,hand coding no tools!?
My question to the propspective employer would have been, why? Why can't I use the tools that save time and money? What difference does it make whether I hand code it or use an editor or tool? Sure, I understand html, but why should I have to waste my time hand coding when the tools I use can do it in 1/10th the time?
I'll assume that they are going to give you the graphic already sliced and diced. If that is the case, then the hand coding and CSS is a breeze. If they are not giving you a sliced image, how does the interviewer expect you to cut it up (slice)?
You can drop that graphic into ImageReady and have it ready in about 10 minutes. ImageReady will output all the necessary html and css. The hand coding will probably take about 20 minutes based on experience level.
I'm beginning to wonder if the interviewer needs some testing themselves. ;)
P.S. Maybe its a trick question. Maybe the interviewer is looking to you for an explanation of why this should be done using a tool. Maybe they know that you cannot slice an image without some sort of graphics program and they want to see how much experience you have. First thing I'd say is...
"Forgive me for being blunt but, I see no reason why this needs to be done by hand when there are tools available that can do this in a fraction of the time and cost."
yes yes..I am also wondering...why is it only hand coding..?
I kept thinking about it...and I think I got to the result that maybe the image will be ready and some buttons with there rollovers and stuff...I guess so...
if it was not this...then I wont pass this test for sure...!
I dont do rollovers with ahnd coding though? why so when I have Dreamweaver & FW?
Like siad before this test is probably going to be an image of a webpage you have to recreate in HTML and CSS. I would be astounded if they told you to cut an image and wanted you to say it can't be done. Just beef up on things like rollover scripts and I think you should be ok.
