Improving Georgia Tech’s T-Square with CSS3

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User stylesheets are pretty cool. All modern browsers have extensions for supporting user stylesheets for specific domains. If a website is coded well, it is pretty easy to completely change the look and feel of a website with a few CSS overrides.

Georgia Tech professors and students all agree that T-Square is awful. On campus, the site is infamous for its unreliability and horrid user interface. After one of my 2110 labs I played around with the site a little with WebKit’s web inspector tool. From there I decided to make a full user stylesheet.

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Working for Georgia Tech’s Technique

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This summer I started working for the Technique, Georgia Tech’s student newspaper. I was hired to lead new efforts to redesign and add new features to the newspaper’s online counterpart, Nique.net. The Technique staff contacted me off of a referral from my freshman CS mentor Brad Williford. (By the way, the CS mentor program at Georgia Tech is awesome. It really helps form a solid, friendly community in the College of Computing between the freshman and upperclassmen.)

Working for the Technique has been a great experience, so far. The Technique staff is very friendly – everyone is positive and hard-working. They have their act together. I was a bit unsure if I could offer everything that they were looking in a web developer, but I was assured that they were looking for someone who could make mistakes and learn on the job. Fortunately I haven’t made any big mistakes so far, but I sure have learned a lot.

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