Re: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

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Re: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread Geoff Deering
Geez, if only I was so lucky to get such an easy project... this is 
project from heaven compared to most of what comes my way


Geoff


Mike Kear said the following on 7/04/2009 2:42 AM:


You might be amused to learn about the site I was given to rebuild 
this week. It was built by a photographer who had a mac and some free 
software, and the client said the problem was she had to get someone 
to update it for her every time she changed anything in her business. 
She wanted a content management system.


That’s no problem for me – that’s mostly what I do . But I was 
appalled when I saw the site she was asking me to rebuild .. . here’s 
what I found – the work of a woman who was claiming to be a 
professional web designer:


[A] the site consisted of 8 html pages

[B] each page consisted of some invalid html code produced by a 
WYSIWYG app, presumably used incorrectly since most WYSIWYG apps are 
CAPABLE of producing valid code.


[C] the content on each page consisted of a single image for the 
header 1169px x 168px and another jpg image with all the text, photos 
etc 702px x 961px


[D] because of the sizes of the header image and the body image, none 
of the pages could ever possibly line up across the page without a lot 
of tinkering about.


[E] the html contained no content whatever, except the name of the 
designer


[F] all links inside the pages were using image maps – something I 
haven’t used for about ten years. I don’t think I’d even remember how 
to do that now if I had to.


[G] the layout problems caused by the different widths of the header 
and the image in the body were corrected by nesting tables with lots 
of cells and a transparent spacer gif to stretch the cells out. I 
didn’t bother working out why there were so many of these spacer 
tables, I knew at a glance I wasn’t going to be needing anything in 
this code!


[H] because my client has had such trouble getting her site updated on 
a timely basis, she has taken the site away and is hosting it with me, 
which has sparked off a war between my client and her former web 
designer, complaining that I have taken her site by using a web 
archive, in violation of her rights to copyright. (As a first step, I 
used a browser to copy the files from her existing site, so I could 
see what’s in there, just in case the former designer decided to take 
it off line. Which she did. So it was a good precaution. Then while my 
client and I are discussing her new site, I put the existing one up in 
her new hosting space with me just so the site stays alive while we 
work out what to do. You can almost hear the former web designer 
frothing at the mouth as she rants and raves on the phone DEMANDING 
that I pull everything down off the web within ONE HOUR – OR ELSE!!)


It’s like a cat fight. I’m expecting to see them both pulling each 
others hair, biting, and rolling in the mud any time soon.


Anyway, I’d done quite a few sites now that I’ve enhanced by making 
them standards compliant, but I think this is the most extreme case 
I’ve seen – well since I tried Frontpage v2.0 all those years ago.


Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is up. 
If the client agrees.


Cheers

Mike Kear

Windsor, NSW, Australia

0422 985 585

Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer

AFP Webworks Pty Ltd

http://afpwebworks.com

Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month


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RE: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Vickery
You used to be able to slice an image up in Photoshop and export it as HTML. 
I’m not even sure if you can still do that. It used to make THE ugliest code, 
maybe that’s how they did it, wouldn’t be the first time.

Regarding copyright... if you’re in Australia there’s a book put out by 
www.copyright.org.au<http://www.copyright.org.au> that looks like it’s exactly 
what you need. I’m pretty keen to get a copy for our office.
http://www.copyright.org.au/publications/books/b131.htm


“The guide includes references to real-life cases and answers many common

questions such as:



­ can clients use designs they haven¹t paid for?

­ are clients entitled to original artwork and files?
­ what if someone says I¹ve copied their design?...”


From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On 
Behalf Of Joseph Taylor
Sent: Tuesday, 7 April 2009 5:30 AM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

Sadly, many sites get built this way.

Sent from the iphone of:

Joseph R. B. Taylor
Designer/Developer
---
Sites by Joe, LLC
"Clean, Simple & Elegant Web Design"
Phone: (609) 335-3076


On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:21 PM, "Rick Faircloth" 
mailto:r...@whitestonemedia.com>> wrote:
Sounds like a nightmare, Mike.

I wonder if the former web designer has any real claim
to copyright on the site’s original graphics, or did the client
pay to be owner of the site’s graphics in their original agreement?

Rick

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org<mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org> 
[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Mike Kear
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:42 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org<mailto:wsg@webstandardsgroup.org>
Subject: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

You might be amused to learn about the site I was given to rebuild this week.   
 It was built by a photographer who had a mac and some free software, and the 
client said the problem was she had to get someone to update it for her every 
time she changed anything in her business.  She wanted a content management 
system.

That’s no problem for me – that’s mostly what I do .   But I was appalled when 
I saw the site she was asking me to rebuild .. .  here’s what I found – the 
work of a woman who was claiming to be a professional web designer:

[A]  the site consisted of 8 html pages
[B]  each page consisted of some invalid html code produced by a WYSIWYG app, 
presumably used incorrectly since most WYSIWYG apps are CAPABLE of  producing 
valid code.
[C] the content on each page consisted of a single image for the header 1169px 
x 168px  and another jpg image with all the text, photos etc  702px x 961px
[D]  because of the sizes of the header image and the body image,   none of the 
pages could ever possibly line up across the page without a lot of tinkering 
about.
[E]  the html contained no content whatever, except the name of the designer
[F]  all links inside the pages were using image maps – something I haven’t 
used for about  ten years.  I don’t think I’d even remember how to do that now 
if I had to.
[G]  the layout problems caused by the different widths of the header and the 
image in the body were corrected by nesting tables with lots of cells and a 
transparent spacer gif to stretch the cells out.   I didn’t bother working out 
why there were so many of these spacer tables,  I knew at a glance I wasn’t 
going to be needing anything in this code!
[H] because my client has had such trouble getting her site updated on a timely 
basis,  she has taken the site away and is hosting it with me,  which has 
sparked off a war between my client and her former web designer,   complaining 
that I have taken her site by using a web archive, in violation of her rights 
to copyright.  (As a first step, I used a browser to copy the files from her 
existing site, so I could see what’s in there,  just in case the former 
designer decided to take it off line.Which she did.   So it was a good 
precaution.   Then while my client and I are discussing her new site,  I put 
the existing one up in her new hosting space with me just so the site stays 
alive while we work out what to do.You can almost hear the former web 
designer frothing at the mouth as she rants and raves on the phone DEMANDING 
that I pull everything down off the web within ONE HOUR – OR ELSE!!)

It’s like a cat fight.I’m expecting to see them both pulling each others 
hair, biting, and rolling in the mud any time soon.

Anyway, I’d done quite a few sites now that I’ve enhanced by making them 
standards compliant, but I think this is the most extreme case I’ve seen – well 
since I tried Frontpage v2.0 all those years ago.

Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is up.  If the 
client agrees.



Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
0422 985 585
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks Pty Ltd
http://afpwebw

Re: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
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Re: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread Joseph Taylor

Sadly, many sites get built this way.

Sent from the iphone of:

Joseph R. B. Taylor
Designer/Developer
---
Sites by Joe, LLC
"Clean, Simple & Elegant Web Design"
Phone: (609) 335-3076


On Apr 6, 2009, at 1:21 PM, "Rick Faircloth"  
 wrote:



Sounds like a nightmare, Mike.



I wonder if the former web designer has any real claim

to copyright on the site’s original graphics, or did the client

pay to be owner of the site’s graphics in their original agreement?



Rick



From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org  
[mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Mike Kear

Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:42 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...



You might be amused to learn about the site I was given to rebuild  
this week.It was built by a photographer who had a mac and some  
free software, and the client said the problem was she had to get  
someone to update it for her every time she changed anything in her  
business.  She wanted a content management system.




That’s no problem for me – that’s mostly what I do .   But I  
was appalled when I saw the site she was asking me to rebuild .. .   
here’s what I found – the work of a woman who was claiming to be  
a professional web designer:




[A]  the site consisted of 8 html pages

[B]  each page consisted of some invalid html code produced by a  
WYSIWYG app, presumably used incorrectly since most WYSIWYG apps are  
CAPABLE of  producing valid code.


[C] the content on each page consisted of a single image for the  
header 1169px x 168px  and another jpg image with all the text,  
photos etc  702px x 961px


[D]  because of the sizes of the header image and the body image,
none of the pages could ever possibly line up across the page  
without a lot of tinkering about.


[E]  the html contained no content whatever, except the name of the  
designer


[F]  all links inside the pages were using image maps – something I  
haven’t used for about  ten years.  I don’t think I’d even  
remember how to do that now if I had to.


[G]  the layout problems caused by the different widths of the  
header and the image in the body were corrected by nesting tables  
with lots of cells and a transparent spacer gif to stretch the cells  
out.   I didn’t bother working out why there were so many of these s 
pacer tables,  I knew at a glance I wasn’t going to be needing anyth 
ing in this code!


[H] because my client has had such trouble getting her site updated  
on a timely basis,  she has taken the site away and is hosting it  
with me,  which has sparked off a war between my client and her  
former web designer,   complaining that I have taken her site by  
using a web archive, in violation of her rights to copyright.  (As a  
first step, I used a browser to copy the files from her existing  
site, so I could see what’s in there,  just in case the former desig 
ner decided to take it off line.Which she did.   So it was a goo 
d precaution.   Then while my client and I are discussing her new si 
te,  I put the existing one up in her new hosting space with me just 
 so the site stays alive while we work out what to do.You can al 
most hear the former web designer frothing at the mouth as she rants 
 and raves on the phone DEMANDING that I pull everything down off th 
e web within ONE HOUR – OR ELSE!!)




It’s like a cat fight.I’m expecting to see them both pulling  
each others hair, biting, and rolling in the mud any time soon.




Anyway, I’d done quite a few sites now that I’ve enhanced by  
making them standards compliant, but I think this is the most extrem 
e case I’ve seen – well since I tried Frontpage v2.0 all those  
years ago.




Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is  
up.  If the client agrees.








Cheers

Mike Kear

Windsor, NSW, Australia

0422 985 585

Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer

AFP Webworks Pty Ltd

http://afpwebworks.com

Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month




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Re: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread jason
Aaaahhahahahaahha
This case study has made my day!
Thanks for sharing it with us!
Jason
Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

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From: "Rick Faircloth" 

Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:21:56 
To: 
Subject: RE: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...


Sounds like a nightmare, Mike.

 

I wonder if the former web designer has any real claim

to copyright on the site's original graphics, or did the client

pay to be owner of the site's graphics in their original agreement?

 

Rick

 

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Kear
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:42 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

 

You might be amused to learn about the site I was given to rebuild this
week.It was built by a photographer who had a mac and some free
software, and the client said the problem was she had to get someone to
update it for her every time she changed anything in her business.  She
wanted a content management system.  

 

That's no problem for me - that's mostly what I do .   But I was appalled
when I saw the site she was asking me to rebuild .. .  here's what I found -
the work of a woman who was claiming to be a professional web designer: 

 

[A]  the site consisted of 8 html pages

[B]  each page consisted of some invalid html code produced by a WYSIWYG
app, presumably used incorrectly since most WYSIWYG apps are CAPABLE of
producing valid code.

[C] the content on each page consisted of a single image for the header
1169px x 168px  and another jpg image with all the text, photos etc  702px x
961px

[D]  because of the sizes of the header image and the body image,   none of
the pages could ever possibly line up across the page without a lot of
tinkering about.

[E]  the html contained no content whatever, except the name of the designer

[F]  all links inside the pages were using image maps - something I haven't
used for about  ten years.  I don't think I'd even remember how to do that
now if I had to.

[G]  the layout problems caused by the different widths of the header and
the image in the body were corrected by nesting tables with lots of cells
and a transparent spacer gif to stretch the cells out.   I didn't bother
working out why there were so many of these spacer tables,  I knew at a
glance I wasn't going to be needing anything in this code! 

[H] because my client has had such trouble getting her site updated on a
timely basis,  she has taken the site away and is hosting it with me,  which
has sparked off a war between my client and her former web designer,
complaining that I have taken her site by using a web archive, in violation
of her rights to copyright.  (As a first step, I used a browser to copy the
files from her existing site, so I could see what's in there,  just in case
the former designer decided to take it off line.Which she did.   So it
was a good precaution.   Then while my client and I are discussing her new
site,  I put the existing one up in her new hosting space with me just so
the site stays alive while we work out what to do.You can almost hear
the former web designer frothing at the mouth as she rants and raves on the
phone DEMANDING that I pull everything down off the web within ONE HOUR - OR
ELSE!!)

 

It's like a cat fight.I'm expecting to see them both pulling each others
hair, biting, and rolling in the mud any time soon.

 

Anyway, I'd done quite a few sites now that I've enhanced by making them
standards compliant, but I think this is the most extreme case I've seen -
well since I tried Frontpage v2.0 all those years ago.

 

Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is up.  If
the client agrees.

 

 

 

Cheers

Mike Kear

Windsor, NSW, Australia

0422 985 585

Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer 

AFP Webworks Pty Ltd 

http://afpwebworks.com 

Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month

 


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RE: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread Rick Faircloth
Sounds like a nightmare, Mike.

 

I wonder if the former web designer has any real claim

to copyright on the site's original graphics, or did the client

pay to be owner of the site's graphics in their original agreement?

 

Rick

 

From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On
Behalf Of Mike Kear
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 12:42 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: [WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

 

You might be amused to learn about the site I was given to rebuild this
week.It was built by a photographer who had a mac and some free
software, and the client said the problem was she had to get someone to
update it for her every time she changed anything in her business.  She
wanted a content management system.  

 

That's no problem for me - that's mostly what I do .   But I was appalled
when I saw the site she was asking me to rebuild .. .  here's what I found -
the work of a woman who was claiming to be a professional web designer: 

 

[A]  the site consisted of 8 html pages

[B]  each page consisted of some invalid html code produced by a WYSIWYG
app, presumably used incorrectly since most WYSIWYG apps are CAPABLE of
producing valid code.

[C] the content on each page consisted of a single image for the header
1169px x 168px  and another jpg image with all the text, photos etc  702px x
961px

[D]  because of the sizes of the header image and the body image,   none of
the pages could ever possibly line up across the page without a lot of
tinkering about.

[E]  the html contained no content whatever, except the name of the designer

[F]  all links inside the pages were using image maps - something I haven't
used for about  ten years.  I don't think I'd even remember how to do that
now if I had to.

[G]  the layout problems caused by the different widths of the header and
the image in the body were corrected by nesting tables with lots of cells
and a transparent spacer gif to stretch the cells out.   I didn't bother
working out why there were so many of these spacer tables,  I knew at a
glance I wasn't going to be needing anything in this code! 

[H] because my client has had such trouble getting her site updated on a
timely basis,  she has taken the site away and is hosting it with me,  which
has sparked off a war between my client and her former web designer,
complaining that I have taken her site by using a web archive, in violation
of her rights to copyright.  (As a first step, I used a browser to copy the
files from her existing site, so I could see what's in there,  just in case
the former designer decided to take it off line.Which she did.   So it
was a good precaution.   Then while my client and I are discussing her new
site,  I put the existing one up in her new hosting space with me just so
the site stays alive while we work out what to do.You can almost hear
the former web designer frothing at the mouth as she rants and raves on the
phone DEMANDING that I pull everything down off the web within ONE HOUR - OR
ELSE!!)

 

It's like a cat fight.I'm expecting to see them both pulling each others
hair, biting, and rolling in the mud any time soon.

 

Anyway, I'd done quite a few sites now that I've enhanced by making them
standards compliant, but I think this is the most extreme case I've seen -
well since I tried Frontpage v2.0 all those years ago.

 

Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is up.  If
the client agrees.

 

 

 

Cheers

Mike Kear

Windsor, NSW, Australia

0422 985 585

Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer 

AFP Webworks Pty Ltd 

http://afpwebworks.com 

Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month

 


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[WSG] Was given a shocker this week ...

2009-04-06 Thread Mike Kear
You might be amused to learn about the site I was given to rebuild this
week.It was built by a photographer who had a mac and some free
software, and the client said the problem was she had to get someone to
update it for her every time she changed anything in her business.  She
wanted a content management system.  

 

That's no problem for me - that's mostly what I do .   But I was appalled
when I saw the site she was asking me to rebuild .. .  here's what I found -
the work of a woman who was claiming to be a professional web designer: 

 

[A]  the site consisted of 8 html pages

[B]  each page consisted of some invalid html code produced by a WYSIWYG
app, presumably used incorrectly since most WYSIWYG apps are CAPABLE of
producing valid code.

[C] the content on each page consisted of a single image for the header
1169px x 168px  and another jpg image with all the text, photos etc  702px x
961px

[D]  because of the sizes of the header image and the body image,   none of
the pages could ever possibly line up across the page without a lot of
tinkering about.

[E]  the html contained no content whatever, except the name of the designer

[F]  all links inside the pages were using image maps - something I haven't
used for about  ten years.  I don't think I'd even remember how to do that
now if I had to.

[G]  the layout problems caused by the different widths of the header and
the image in the body were corrected by nesting tables with lots of cells
and a transparent spacer gif to stretch the cells out.   I didn't bother
working out why there were so many of these spacer tables,  I knew at a
glance I wasn't going to be needing anything in this code! 

[H] because my client has had such trouble getting her site updated on a
timely basis,  she has taken the site away and is hosting it with me,  which
has sparked off a war between my client and her former web designer,
complaining that I have taken her site by using a web archive, in violation
of her rights to copyright.  (As a first step, I used a browser to copy the
files from her existing site, so I could see what's in there,  just in case
the former designer decided to take it off line.Which she did.   So it
was a good precaution.   Then while my client and I are discussing her new
site,  I put the existing one up in her new hosting space with me just so
the site stays alive while we work out what to do.You can almost hear
the former web designer frothing at the mouth as she rants and raves on the
phone DEMANDING that I pull everything down off the web within ONE HOUR - OR
ELSE!!)

 

It's like a cat fight.I'm expecting to see them both pulling each others
hair, biting, and rolling in the mud any time soon.

 

Anyway, I'd done quite a few sites now that I've enhanced by making them
standards compliant, but I think this is the most extreme case I've seen -
well since I tried Frontpage v2.0 all those years ago.

 

Maybe I can write it up as a case study later when the new site is up.  If
the client agrees.

 

 

 

Cheers

Mike Kear

Windsor, NSW, Australia

0422 985 585

Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer 

AFP Webworks Pty Ltd 

http://afpwebworks.com 

Full Scale ColdFusion hosting from A$15/month

 



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