Well just so you know Michael, you're not the only one who's had dealings
with some Brisbane web dev cowboys. :(
On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:44:13 +1000, Michael Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I have the task of writing the database/dynamic stuff behind an
e-commerce
site. The design work and static pages are done by a professional design
web
dev house in Brisbane, and yesterday I got hold of their work. My job
now
is to merge their stuff with the shopping cart and other components I've
written.
And it's now I see how far I've come with my web dev techniques.
This professional design and web dev house has pages that features the
following:
1. every page contains the CSS in text in the <head> tag, not in a linked
style sheet.
2. every page uses tables for layout.
3. all the tables are nested to multiple levels
4. many of the cells or <tr> tags have styles inline, or they use the
bgcolor attribute (not consistently either way)
5. javascript is both typed at the top of the page in the <head> and
also
inline, scattered throughout the page.
6. no ULs anywhere. The navigation is also nested tables.
7. there is no doctype.
8. the code is scattered all over the page which tells me this
professional
dev studio doesn’t look at their code at all, only uses wysiwyg tools.
9. they uploaded the code so EVERYTHING goes in the root level of the
site,
no folders at all except they did put the images into an images folder,
so
you have to give them half a point for that.
Now I have to work my own stuff into this site, and it's proving much
more
difficult than with my own work. My own code is organised, it's laid
out on
the page, commented and indented, I use includes to keep the elements of
code separated and easy to find, and I don’t have any nested tables
anywhere. In fact I haven’t used tables for anything except tabular data
for 18 months now.
This code just looks old fashioned and amateur. It's inaccessible, and
difficult to maintain. Their page weight is about three times what it
needs
to be because the javascript and styles are downloaded with each page
view,
and the nested tables add enormously to the code weight.
I resent the fact that this professional design house has accepted
cash-type
money from my client to design the public side of the web site and
produced
such a shoddy job. Not only that, I have to work inside it, to make all
my
work function in this dogs-breakfast of a mess.
Now I see how far I have come in my development. My own sites have much
smaller pages for the same content, they load faster, they're far more
efficient, accessible, and easy to maintain than this pile of spaghetti.
Now I have to decide whether I want to spend some of my own time now
redoing
their work, thereby easing the road for myself down the track, or
because I
wont get paid for that, just go along with it and work with it.
Just venting. Thanks for being patient with me.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer
AFP Webworks Pty Ltd
http://afpwebworks.com
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