Sent by Dave Silvester on 16 August 2004 14:02
On Sunday 15 Aug 2004 20:23, Michael Landis wrote:
> Remember, in a client/provider relationship, there will always be
> compromises made. Otherwise, the compromise is made to your wallet.
Apologies for the OT, but amen to that!
Even doing pure CSS based layouts with all the best intentions, I still have
to compromise on stuff I swore I'd never compromise on when I went freelance
- mostly usability stuff - because of customer demands and unwillingness to
budge, even in the face of good advice. Customers often don't care - they
just want their site to look how they want it to look, and can't see beyond
that, however much you try and help them.
The fact is, however good we all are at usability issues, standards compliant
code and CSS layouts, there will always be customers who won't want to know,
won't listen to any amount of advice, and who force us to compromise on
stuff.
That's life I guess - gotta please the customer otherwise we go hungry.
Still, sometimes I have been tempted to put:
<meta name="author" content="Alan Smithee" />
....so at least people looking at the code might know where I'm coming from!
~Dave
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Dave Silvester
Music Technology Junkie
Web: http://www.mu-sly.co.uk/
Email: sly at mu hyphen sly dot co dot uk
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