Website Design Hell

[hi19hi19]

I am designing a website. The person who designed this company's existing website clearly had no idea what she was doing.



Each of these 2.604 Web folders has around a dozen files in it, and the files are not copies. Some parts of the main page reference files that are all the way down in like the 12th nested folder for some godforsaken reason.
Now I have never actually done HTML myself so I too am learning as I go, but even I can tell this is not generally how you organize files.

This is going to take a long time.

[Wayward Vagabond]

Re: Website Design Hell

lmao why even

also this reminded me of this comic http://xkcd.com/981/

[Izzy]

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This looks like some kind of saving failure. I remember once in Eclipse programming IDE I did something to my current project folder and when I went to save it started infinite looping to save nested folders 10's of thousands of folders deep.

The hidden name for the folders were so long i couldn't delete the root of it within windows because ntfs file system didn't understand how to deal with it.

The point is I don't think that file hierarchy was intentional.

[Riotpolice]

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That looks a lot like a cluster fuck to me....

[hi19hi19]

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This looks like some kind of saving failure. I remember once in Eclipse programming IDE I did something to my current project folder and when I went to save it started infinite looping to save nested folders 10's of thousands of folders deep.

The hidden name for the folders were so long i couldn't delete the root of it within windows because ntfs file system didn't understand how to deal with it.

The point is I don't think that file hierarchy was intentional.

Yeah I think it's a quirk of Dreamweaver (the program she used)
Definitely not intentional, but I still have to clean it up >_<

[rushyrulz]

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holy directories batman

[Coolboyrulez0]

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Gosh, that's gross. Have fun cleaning up :)

[Reincarnate]

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http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

[Pseudo Enigma]

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god damn folderception going on in there. good luck man

[Ohaider]

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the fuck haha

[trumaestro]

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Just start from scratch. It'd probably be quicker and easier.

[hi19hi19]

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Just start from scratch. It'd probably be quicker and easier.

I did with the HTML, but there are assets in there that I had to find (mostly images) so I wound up spending most of today just sorting through. Got it done though :)

[Micah_]

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This reminds me of my CGI Programming Professor's Apache Server. He had to have had 200+ directories with sub directories that made NO SENSE. I feel your pain.

[UserNameGoesHere]

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I feel for you. I'm also laughing my ass off.

Good you got it done though.

[qqwref]

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Haha, oh god. This reminds me of this one time I was at a summer camp >10 years ago, doing some basic Visual Basic game design class, and I decided to take a look at the camp's website. The HTML was a massive clusterfuck, more than an order of magnitude bigger than it needed to be, and obviously saved in Microsoft Word (which, if you don't know, used to have a habit of using obscure syntax to clarify every possible option for every different piece of text, even when almost everything was default). It baffled me that a camp that offered a web design class could be so inept.