I have had ( and surely others have also had) clients who were so
insistent
the webpage (as designed by their long-time advertising company) be as
static as the printed page that they furnished a JPEG image of the
desired
page and I was instructed that web page was to consist of that
single image.
There is very little to be done when the client insists.
Del
When the client insists, it is our responsibility to educate them on
the nature of the web medium, how many visitors to their site will
think they are incompetent, how expensive/time-consuming it will be to
update, how inflexible it is... and generally, this sort of thing
would be ironed out before the client becomes a client in the first
place, via a thorough client survey, project questionnaire, and so on.
As web developers, we have a responsibility to be environmentally/
quality-conscious, and not continue to litter the internet with
garbage. Refer clients to Steve Krug's book, to web articles, to
Jeffrey Zeldman's writings -- whatever it takes to discontinue bad work.
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