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Originally Posted by n3tFl0w  But I'm not. I am however comparing the outward images of both examples. And I think its fair. |
Well you did use the analogy of the barbers with medals outside and it's likely to "win" the customer.
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Originally Posted by n3tFl0w True on the top point - However I believe it shows a certain delligence. And on the bottom point, I think you and I have very different ideas on the meaning of basic. It is quite an amount of work to get a complicated, well designed website to be web standard compliant and valid. Most people I know with basic web skills are still throwing table based websites at the general public. |
I never said anything about a complicated design being easy or basic. I said that anyone with basic web development knowledge would be able to create a standards compliant website.
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Originally Posted by n3tFl0w I don't understand what you mean about it being about ego... I don't think anyone is out there under the impression that just because they made their website standards compliant that their somehow a legend among men?
I believe that most people who are interested in these things do it to raise awareness. To try and get more people on the road to standard, better written and designed websites that enable the content to be shared by everyone and is not excluding any group of people through laziness or lack of understanding. |
Well to be honest I do feel that it's a pure ego thing - at the moment. Now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of standards compliance and hope that one day the whole web will be compliant, however, in the real world you don't need to be standards compliant to have a successful, attractive, functional website. Raising awareness is a good thing and I like that trail of thought.
I don't agree that non-standards compliance is a lack of understanding. And I really hate hearing people say that it's laziness. How is it lazy? Because it takes longer to do you think people aren't interested in doing it? I don't think so.
There are a number of reasons when running a business. Speed of delivery, the amount of time it takes to develop a complicated site in CSS over HTML and of course, the cost of that time.