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 was the significant factor, have you seen my site? www.t94xr.net.nz Camz ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nan Zhong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:00 PM Subject: Re: [WSG] Should web standards cost more? > 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 contracts even though they know my age and such is that I design > by web standards. > > Nan Zhong > > Neerav wrote: > > > Hi > > > > The slightly OT thread [WSG] Budget Design, made me think of an idea > > which is very relevent to all members of WSG .. > > > > 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 > > > > 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 show my product validates against > > these standards, this is like an industrial business getting ISO > > Quality certification for their processes and means my product/service > > satisfies web industry standards for quality of code, can other > > companies with proposals for your project do the same ?" > > > > ***************************************************** > The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ > See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > for some hints on posting to the list & getting help > ***************************************************** > > > > ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
