Re: [WSG] Standards Compliance -vs- User Enjoyment

[Chris Stratford]

That was my originaly thought... I am still contemplating what to do. I really want to make it look appealing - and yet still compliant. Good point that the graphics are still all the same - regardless of the code. Something I may have forgotten. Well you have some very good points which I appreciate! Thanks very much! - Chris Stratford Kay Smoljak wrote: Chris Stratford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: To knuckle down and get to the point - Do I use webstandards and efficent coding to make the website... Or do I use Flash, Verbose Table Layouts, Lots of Images & Animations etc... To get people interested. Don't get suckered into the myth that standards based web sites can't look as good as old-school tag soup sites. That's what people who can't be bothered learning something new use as an argument. I maintain that the actual web sites you produce should not look any different just because you are using standards. Until someone views source (or tries a browser other than IE or uses a screen reader etc), no one should know what you've done. When I started getting our team to start coding to the standards, I didn't even mention it to the designers - I got the coders to change the way they were creating the sites. The graphic designers are still producing the same kinds of things that they did before. -- Kay Smoljak http://www.glyfx.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************