I've been feeling a bit guilty for the past few months because I wouldn't get the bugs out of a friend's insurance-business site for him on the ultra-cheap. The tables and inline mess would've taken so long to sort out that I probably would've been better off, time-wise, starting from scratch. I offered him a discounted rate, but it wasn't enough of a discount for him, I guess.
Now, I'm thinking I did the right thing after all. I know he wouldn't've appreciated the clean coding, and he definitely wouldn't've appreciated the time spent. Jo Hawke On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Simon Pascal Klein <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 30/01/2009, at 2:15 AM, <[email protected]> < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Join the club, I've been commissioned to do a local website and the guy >> was hoping he'd be able to get a quick bug-fix on his current with a bit of >> updating. >> >> Unfortuanetly the css was akin to the Guttenberg Bible; completely >> unreadable and would have been a pig to translate. Not to mention, a strange >> and chaotic mishmash of tables, frames and weird proprietary software >> markup. Some clients (and this one did, thank god) need to realize that when >> the original is written by a back street bedroom "I can do that" wannabe, >> they're paying for someone who can stick a few words and pics up and not >> much else. >> > > Wel, I for one, relish at the idea of getting my hands on a Gutenburg Bible > and reading it… well analysing the lettering and type rather, but hey. :-) > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of James Jeffery >> Sent: 29 January 2009 14:13 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :( >> >> [...] >> > > --- > Simon Pascal Klein > Graphic & Web Designer > > Web: http://klepas.org > E-mai: [email protected] > Twitter: @klepas; http://twitter.com/klepas > > > Kaffee und Kuchen. > > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
