[css-d] Introductions

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Boag 
Hi all,
I have just joined the list and thought it only polite for me to say hello 
instead of skulking in the background.

My name is Paul and I am a web design based in the south of England. I am one 
of three founding members of a web design company called Headscape which made 
the switch to wholly css based design about a year and a half ago (although we 
still have a table based web site ourselves!).

Its been a painful process at times and I have gotten a lot wrong and still am. 
Just when I think I have got my head around things I suddenly discover the 
world have moved on and there are now better ways to solve the never-ending 
list of bugs and problems.

I have just got back from the @media 2005 conference 
(http://www.boagworld.com/archives/2005/06/media2005.html) on web standards and 
accessibility. It was absolutely brilliant and gave me a new conviction about 
web standards and css based design.

I look forward to learning from you all and occasionally adding something 
constructive to the conversation.

Paul

P A U L @ B O A G W O R L D
News and advice on running a web site without overwhelming you with techno 
babble!
www.boagworld.com

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RE: [css-d] Introductions

2005-06-15 Thread Paul Boag 
Hi Anthony,
I am not convinced that this forum is the right place for me to do into the 
details of marketing a web design company. However my blog does have a lot of 
articles on marketing related stuff so you might want to check that out: 
http://www.boagworld.com/archives/emarketing/index.html

What might be of more relevancy to this group is the problem of selling web 
standards compliant design to clients. I have confess we are in a fortunate 
position where a lot of our clients are public bodies (Universities, government 
organisations) and so many of them are well aware of the benefits and sometimes 
even request a standards build. Nevertheless there are still many occasions 
where I have to do the hard sell. In such cases I use the points covered in 
this article as the basis of my approach: 
http://www.boagworld.com/archives/emarketing/index.html

The bigger sellers however are the print capabilities of css and the style 
changing (show them Zen gardens and they are sold).

Hope that helps,
Paul

P A U L @ B O A G W O R L D
News and advice on running a web site without overwhelming you with techno 
babble!
www.boagworld.com

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Hi Paul, nice to see you on the list, I have just started my own web design 
service up in Carmarthenshire (so far away to be no competition!), mainly due 
to being made redundant from my day job. I was just wondering if you had any 
tips you would be willing to share, especially on the marketing side. I have 
never learnt the old style of table based html, I concentrated on css based 
design straight away, but it is a struggle at times to make pages standards 
compliant. I do however feel strongly that all our sites should now be 
standards compliant, even at the expense of some visual finery.
Anyhow,
Any tips most welcome!
anthony

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