Hey Jackie
I agree with you and think maybe I just didn't explain myself properly.
A guy in high school who has made a site for his uncle and one for his
soccer team is not going to be able to charge the same rate as someone
who has been developing site professionally for a number of years.
I
Could not agree more!
End of the day validating a site is the least of you worries, unless that
is what the client overall wants.
To be honests i wouldnt even charge extra for a valid site, as in my eyes
any true web developer should make sure it validates anyway, as it shows
they know what
To follow up on Jackie and Mark's comments, I adopt the What the market will
bear rule. And, similarly, I spend nearly all my 'leisure' hours learning
better, more efficient, more eloquent methods of both standards compliance
and accessible site development.
And I don't consider charging more. I
Neerav wrote:
My premise is that any sensible business person should try to
differentiate from competitors by showing they have skills that no one
else has, vast experience etc and justify charging more than the
competition because of that
As I see it, Web standards allows you to charge more
In a perfect world, but we always no when it comes to standards unless
your keeping it simple i would never quote a hourly rate.
Would rather go flat fee and get a even medium and make sure i get the job done,
and keep the client happy and willing to come back...
take
Mordechai Peller wrote:
However, since development time is less, the cost to the client will
be less.
You say that as though the time savings are an undeniable fact. In my
experience using CSS increases the initial template build and testing
time but decreases the time taken to develop
Andy Budd wrote:
You say that as though the time savings are an undeniable fact. In my
experience using CSS increases the initial template build and testing
time but decreases the time taken to develop individual pages. As
such, the time savings only really start to manifest themselves on
*Nods approvingly*
Patrick
Patrick H. Lauke
Webmaster / University of Salford
http://www.salford.ac.uk
You say that as though the time savings are an undeniable fact. In my
experience using CSS increases the initial template build and testing
time but
Hello,
Well I have. I'm still a high school student and therefore have no real
qualifications other than experience. However people have seen my work
and still come to me for design jobs. I charge less (again due to
qualifications) but one of the main reasons people still contact me for
design
Our web agency has been promoting the versatility of sites built to web
standards instead of the our sites validate or the you could be
threatened with legal action one day argument. Telling clients that
their site will reach a larger audience, be forward compatible, or can
be viewed better on
was the significant factor, have you seen my site? www.t94xr.net.nz
Camz
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Subject: Re: [WSG] Should web standards cost more?
Hello,
Well I have. I'm still a high school
www.MACCAWS.org
Thats a good reason to produce standards compliant websites.
I recently had one job which the coding was easy, the actual complexity of
the detail which was so high it was just a to big a job for me to do :(
But the person who offered me the job, saw my site and emailed me.
What
On 01/06/2004, at 11:46 AM, Neerav wrote:
So has any member of the WSG done that, justifying charging $X more
than eg: the design agency down the road which makes webpages by
putting sliced photoshop images into tables by saying something along
the lines of
I design to Web Standards and can
Hey Guys
This is a service industry, provide cost based on how much the will
cost you to do (i.e. long the work takes you to do). Implementing
standards may save you time or add extra development time.
For example I feel that CSS based design takes less time and as such
should cost less that a
mark said: For example I feel that CSS based design takes less time and as
such
should cost less that a design that has font tags hidden graphics
everywhere.(etc etc)
Mark... my accountant would have you marched straight to the nearest wall
and shot for saying that.
Why on earth should we
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