On 2/2/06, Jay Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a way to make small business owners see that they have now > sane alternative but to use web standards, not tell them they will be ahead > of the curve or save $100/year on hosting.
I'll think of more arguments later, but I can definitely say: - CSS and seperation of presentation from content makes updating a site easier, whether it uses a CMS or not. Tag soup CMS solutions are usually expensive, whereas a typical CSS based site can be built on top of a free CMS. More importantly, when the site does not run on a CMS, it really helps to have clean, semantic code without presentational markup. I know it's a pain for small businesses to pay someone to update their website all the time (they usually can't afford to do it in-house), and even if they still pay someone to update their CSS based site, at least the updates take less time. - Also, CSS makes it easy to have the site redesigned in the future, should it ever be necessary, and if someone gives me a CSS site to redesign, they'll definitely save a lot of money, considering how few changes I would probably have to make to the markup. Pretty much any argument that emphasizes lower maintenance cost is key for small businesses. SEO is a plus. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.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 ******************************************************
