On 04/03/2007, at 3:44 PM, Michael Kear wrote:
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.
I am continually amazed at the poor level of knowledge of standards
(and more importantly IMHO, semantics) in Australian web houses -
especially from corporate shops. Something I realized while working
at a medium-sized dev house was that a lot of the time simple tasks
like HTML/CSS work are given to students or people without a lot of
experience in the field. I suppose it simple and cost effective to
have Joe "Web Wizzard" Bloggs to chop up a site in Dreamweaver and
pass it off as finished work, and stakeholders often won't recognize
(or care) if the layout was written like you described so long as it
works in IE6. In fact, i've actually worked on apps that used Java
println statements to output large parts of the app into tables, when
most of the existing code is handled completely differently.
It's is a pity when you have to fix these kinds of things :)
My pet peeve is starting work on an application thats been in
development for years with the hands of oh, maybe 20 different
programmers that all use different coding styles, strange unstandard
methods of doing things (for example, using Javascript to submit
forms when a normal submit would work fine.).
Oh, and Hi to everyone on the list, I've been reading it for a few
weeks now and thought I might join the conversation, if thats okay
with you guys :)
Have a good weekend,
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Jake Tracey
http://www.jaketracey.com
p. +61410676643
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skype. jaketracey
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