I tell my clients that the only way you can "measure" if your website
(code wise) is any good is by using the industrial standards set by the
W3 and the validators. This also means that if you can't maintain the
site anymore any semi skilled coder should be able to take over. Not
very likely with tag soup, huge scriptbased menus etc.
I'm aware that valid code is not the same as good (wellformed) code...
and just because you use standards doesn't mean the
usability/accessibility is any good.
Kim
Donna Jones wrote:
Dear CSS Listers:
in another thread, someone essentially asked "why code like this", in
trying to convince a friend. I don't think he's getting very good
answers but at any rate, it made me think of a "problem" I'm having
and I've decided to make a new thread.
A non-profit that i've maintained the website for for 8 years or so
has recently had some special grant money and as part of a package
hired a PR firm to work with that segment from the grant (including
the website). They would rather I continue to maintain it but the PR
firm feels otherwise. The situation now, the PR firm has put up a
number of pages, its tag soup, tables, js menu (with graphics) - you
know. I've done the same, based on the PR's firm design - css-p etc.
The non-profit doesn't know what code is, doesn't know there are
browsers other than IE and don't feel they have the time to learn.
I need to be able to explain, by looking at the surface, the
difference between standards coding versus "you-know-what". Just
about the only thing I can come up with is the ability to increase
font size in IE. I also thought of making a PDA example using Opera's
PDA emulator and comparing the two codings, with screen shots, next to
each other and did that but i don't think they get what they're
looking at. Or else make very short sentences i.e. "what the PR firm
is doing is the way someone would have commonly done it five years ago
... "
Any other ideas. Also, I'm afraid, the PR firm has convinced them
that I am just the "in-house volunteer" and that *I'm* liable to mess
up the site ... quoting an experience they had when they turned over a
site to another customer.
I hope this is enough on-topic for some discussion.
best regards,
Donna
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