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.
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.
posted by Mike at 5:46 pm
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