Hi guys, I've been developing websites for quite a while now, (first one would have been around '98) and enjoy it a lot. I have recently decided to start offering my services around the Newcastle, Australia area. I have been focusing lately on usability and standards, which is the main reason that I signed up with this newsletter.
It's quite appalling the regard for web standards and accessibility/usability that some web design companies have. My day job is actually as an IT administrator for a company here in Newcastle, which I started at 4 months ago. Before I was there, my boss gave the go ahead to a local marketing agency to design a website for them (I bet you can smell the trouble already). I was pretty surprised that they actually used a CSS layout and didn't go for tables, but the site they produced didn't even check out in the W3C validator! When I questioned them about it, they said "<webdesigncompany> has been approached to provide a marketing solution, and has delivered this."... I'm sure my boss didn't ask for "marketing solution", I'm sure he actually said to them "I want a website"... however, I digress. If I could get you guys to have a look at the website www.lagunadesigns.com.au it would be greatly appreciated. I am going to list this on Google AdWords under a few keywords once I'm completely happy with it. I tried to go for a web 2.0 style look. Thanks for your help, Dylan Lindgren Laguna Designs [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.lagunadesigns.com.au ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
