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 bother to learn the new skills and spend nights crying with frustration in the attempt to build valid accessible sites when financially its going to cost us money!. We dont pay other professional people, say a doctor or a solicitor or hairdresser, less because of his/her knowledge and skill... we pay them what the job is worth...and thats the way it should be as far as i am concerned. I am not charging "more" for valid sites, I am charging what the job is worth, if i can get the job out faster and more efficiently then good for me... i deserve to be rewarded. No client should be charged for a learning curve, i agree with that wholeheartedly and have never charged for time spent nutting out new skills. However there has to be a value for a site, and just because we have studied and learned new skills to enable us to give the client a "better" site should not mean we are then given a financial slap in the face for our hard won additional skills. The first few valid sites i built took me 4 times as long to build using css rather than tables and I "lost money" and sanity hand over fist on those jobs. Now i am starting to reap the benefits of my newfound skills (still not where they should be i hasten to add - but getting there) and I feel no need to justify the value i place on them. My client benefits and so will I. Jackie Reid > ***************************************************** > 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 *****************************************************
