Lochluichart windfarm objections

Our latest project is a site for raising objections to the proposed windfarm development at Lochluichart in the Highlands of Scotland.

The site, www.a-wind-farm-too-far.com, invites objections to be submitted to the Highland Council and the Scottish Executive by email. Closing date for objections is this Friday, 27 January 2006, so not much time.

This is only one of several hundred such applications all over Scotland. Developers have latched on to the very significant income to be gained from Government subsidies for constructing these monstrous 'generating stations' in beautiful, wild areas.

Objections are valid from anywhere in the world, so if you care about the Scottish landscape and wildlife, visit the site and register an objection.

Happy New Year

The start of a new year and a resolve, not a resolution, to improve my marketing and get more work.

Thinking about this makes me wonder about what clients actually want from their sites. Recently I have had one of my older sites replaced by the client and the new site appears to have been designed by 'a chap down the road' using MS FrontPage.

Having concentrated over the last 6-9 months on standards compliant design using XHTML and CSS I wonder whether this is worthwhile. I can produce a design which works in standards compliant browsers (Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.) in a day or so but then spend the next 3 days trying to make it work in IE because that's what 95% of of visitors are using. When I can only charge £200-250 for a small site this is not economic. If clients are happy with a FrontPage design with multi-nested tables and tag soup why not just deliver that using a free FrontPage template?

I'll probably return to this theme later as I develop my thoughts on the subject.