I think I can charge more for my services because I have more knowledge about standards.
So for me the price may be more expensive - but they are paying for my knowledege and experience - rather than more time and work put into a job.
I hope that sounded right?
But yeah - if you hire someone who has a degree in software engineering and majoring in Java - they will get more pay than someone who is equally as skilled with Java - but they didn't learn at university...
Well thats what I have noticed in life thus far.
Anyway - anyone agree???
Jixor - Stephen I wrote:
To be honest I don't understand how building using standards could cost more unless you simply don't know what your doing. Its really as simple as that, there is no extra work involved in using standards, if anything its less work. Building using standards is a choice not an extra.
If you can't sell standards to your client then you should research the benefits more because time and time again standards based design has more than proven itself, in ways that a business understands.
The only reason standards based design may cost more is because its often the difference between crap and at least decent design. However often clients going for the cheapest will have actually wasted their money because the results tend to be so bad.
Kristof Rutten wrote:
Hi All,
I don't know if you guys experience the same anoying and frustrating talks when it comes
to convince a prospect/client of the fact his/her site isn't working for most of the world.
-- The fact that it's not build following certain standards, the fact Google is like a blind, numb en deaf
person and so on. Finally you have the guy convinced, in comes the next frontpage cowboy.
He lowers the price, the target, the standards .. and up up and away, there goes another client.
How do you convince your client to spend a little more on the design, the coding and the usability
when the most simple logic doesn't work ?
Do you have the same feeling most people don't care about all of the above and keep running
around with the idea IE will fix all.
Prospects site: http://www.s2store.be <BLOCKED::http://www.s2store.be>
Frontpage cowboys: http://www.xperienz.be <BLOCKED::http://www.xperienz.be>
The prospect is complaining about the fact his site doesn't show up in Google and zhy all of his competitors
do.
The Google results : http://www.google.be/search?q=site:s2store.be&hl=nl&lr=&start=20&sa=N <BLOCKED::http://www.google.be/search?q=site:s2store.be&hl=nl&lr=&start=20&sa=N>
Remarks, ideas - toughts ?
.K
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