Jesse you are obviously not a business owner or a general manager. And if you are, you're not thinking like a business owner.
If you can produce work far faster now than you could before, you can charge less. But that's only one of your options. You charge less if you need a competitive advantage. On the other hand you might want charge the same amount for the site, and keep the additional profit. It's what happens when business reduce costs without reducing output. It's called improving productivity. In this case you'd be getting twice as much from your developers, without having to stand behind them with a whip. Or you can pass some of the saving on to the clients and keep some yourself. There are a lot of options. The point is, when you can produce anything faster, cheaper and better, you are improving your business and you have choices. SO far most of the standards discussion has been about the 'better' part - producing better web sites - and that's very important. But here's an article that describes how using standards lets you produce sites faster and cheaper as well. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J Rodgers Sent: Thursday, 3 June 2004 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] At last - here are the dollars in web standards. Hi, new to the list but I couldn't resist this one as I have seen this first hand... The fact it takes less time and saves the client money could be the reason many designers don't want to leave tables behind. Think about the money a shop would lose? They would have to get more clients and improve overall. Its not right, but I have argued with many designers that have said 'standards compliance will cost more.' I wish I could charge $100 an hour.. Stupid salary :( Jesse ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
