Stampede Design
I joined the Stampede Design family for more than six months now and I had my fair share of learning from the team’s developers namely Dov, Shaiful and Iwan who are equipped with skills from HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Joomla to WordPress.
I have had Skype 1-on-1 Joomla training session which really helped to speed up the steep learning curve of the Joomla engine in just a matter of hours! The best is that I got to do hands on practise compared to if I were to learn from private courses. I even went to the company’s warm home-office in the Langkawi island for a bootcamp session! At Stampede we really embrace the culture of teaching.
Few weeks ago we added a new designer to the team. His name is Wan. He has no prior experience in HTML and CSS so I was assigned to teach him the basics of the markup language and the process of styling a site from design.
So Wan and I went to setup a meeting session to create a simple typography test site. It’s a simple three-columns layout. We started from scratch. By that I mean from writing the first <head> tag and explaining the markup language from there to introducing CSS elements like ‘background’, ‘padding’, font-family’, etc.
There were certainly a few little bumps along the way like looking for an editor, getting a FTP client and such. The anal part of me even have to overlook a couple of syntax and indentation inconsistencies, but it is all good at the end of the day because these are part of the learning process. I learned that the best way to teach is to let the mistakes happen. For example, letting Wan knows the consequences of a missing bracket in a style block is better than telling and reminding him whenever he misses it.
After two hours, we got it done and I had a really satisfying sensation considering that we got Wan from zero to building a three-columns layout site.
Here is a screenshot of our end result:
Sometimes you have to reach into someone else’s world to find out what’s missing in your own.
– Intouchables
