Designer wrote:
Andrew Maben wrote:
But as to the cost of compliant, accessible HTML, does anyone *not*
find it quicker and easier (and hence cheaper) to write than tag soup?
Recently, his son got involved and mailed me to say that a friend of
his was doing it for nothing and he could do it very quickly, so he
was replacing my stuff with his friend's. It would be unprofessional
to name names, so i won't, but suffice to say that this person is not
an amateur. You want a laugh? Look at the work he's produced :
http://www.seftonphoto.co.uk.
Thing is, all my effort and work to provide him with a decent site has
gone down the tubes. Standards?
A quick look at the code suggests it's more a case for crying. You say
this person is not an amateur - but one look shows that they have used
Dreamweaver without ever looking at the code that Dreamweaver generates.
I stopped training people in how to use Dreamweaver when MX first came
in back in 2004 - (and I've been doing penance for training people to
use WYSIWYG editors ever since!).
This is what we're up against - the lobby for who web design is quick
and dirty and done with a WYSIWYG editor without any regard for the
code, standards, accessibility or very much else (not a single alt
attribute on the page I looked at!). You must be gutted, Bob!
Andrew - this is what we're facing. It is easier to write compliant and
accessible HTML - but how many designers are writing code at all (or
care at all about standards?). The gap between WYSIWYG users and web
artisans is growing wider - not narrowing!
Simon
www.simonmoss.co.uk
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