Hmmmm Multimedia

It's about time I update some more about the new job.

It's going well!

Ok, I know - you want to hear more. Fair enough. So after kind of getting settled in, I have been working on several projects, and in general I like the work I do there, it can be a bit stressful sometimes, but that is mostly attributed to Internet Explorer being a screwed up web browser.

In case you're wondering what it is exactly I do, here is a brief description.

I am a so-called Multimedia Programmer (this is a fancy term for HTML/CSS/JS Front end developer).

At my firm we have several people involved in the production of websites, the people I deal with the most are the designers and developers. I am their middle man.
I'm lazy, so I'll put this in point form.

• The designers do their thing in Photoshop and hand me and my colleague the final designs.
  
• We then cut the designs up (we don't actually "cut" the designs :P we take out the graphics and make them into manageable pieces for the design, like background images, buttons, headers ... stuff like that).
  
• The we code up the HTML and CSS and little bits of Javascript for the site.
  
• When we're all done with the initial layouts we import those into the custom CMS we use at our firm.
  
• At this point we do some tweaking and then hand the HTML/CMS templates over to the developers who code all the other functionality into the website.
  
• Possibly some design/structural changes take place, so we incorporate them.
  
• Some more tweaking happens here and there as elements of the site get modularized into the CMS.
  

Wow, that actually seems like quite a mouthful for a brief description...

So there you have it. Thats pretty much what I do.
Then there is of course other little random things, like developers needing help with some CSS or HTML and sometimes JavaScript, or one of the producers needing a few images resized.

Right - so small update turned long update, well for this time of the night anyway.

I think I might go get some shut-eye. I also realize you don't care that I'm going to bed right now, but I've already typed it, and it seems like a waste of time going back and erasing it.

Laterz