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Not technically 'support'...
...but, in the relatively-early days of the Electroweb, I managed to get a job at a friend's dad's company, designing websites for them. They organised events and conferences, so there was quite a lot of opportunity for using the first one I'd made as a template, and making it look like I'd done a lot more work than I had I'd done a lot more work than I had.

Making a site took a while, partly because I wasn't particularly good at it, but partly because everyone in the office had to have Input. Having Input is much easier than Doing Some Fucking Work, you see.

Anyway, I'd come to the end of making one site and, after a lot of this Input, it was time for the boss to sign off on it. She looked at it and said 'It's really great; I love it. Could we have it a bit lighter, though?'. Yes. She wanted all the graphics on the page a shade or two lighter.

Full of hate, I skulked back to my little desk, and waited for her to leave the office, at which point I wandered over and fiddled with her monitor settings. On her return, ta-dah! I was able to present her with our new-look, brighter, peppier graphics, which met with absolute approval. Job done.

(On a similar note, the same boss once asked me if we could have some website lettering in gold. I tried to explain a little of the impossibility behind having metallic colours on a VGA monitor, but she was having none of it. I gave her yellow. She didn't complain. This is what happens when you work for people in marketing)

[Finally- I'm breaking my long-lurking silence. Be gentle]
(Sat 26th Sep 2009, 19:52, More)