Hi, I'd been doing web design on the side since last year. I believe in web standards, but I am not sure about potential clients who want to pay me do the job will believe it. For us who believed in web standards, it all sounds very beautiful and convincing, but for companies who provides services, they want web sites, they want their web sites looks nice and professional and they want it to be affordable. They simply want to know how much it will cost right, nothing behind the scene will interest them.
What is the incentive for us to tell potential clients that web standards is important and how many people in this group successfully using web standards as selling point for their web design service. Do you increase your ballpark as a result? In my web design site, I do brag about web standards and that I care, but when I talk to potential clients (so far only two), I didn't even mention it; they didn't ask either even though they have visited my site. To me, web standards is something I believe in, but I do not see any benefit when approaching potential clients. tee ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
