Everyone is a web developer...
I have just spent the past hour going though Craigslist, looking under Services->Computers and then the ads for web design / web site services...
Amazing how for an hour now I have yet to come across ONE site that will validate...
Just found it interesting....
-Greg
teammatt3 posted this at 03:19 — 30th June 2009.
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I really love the $89 dollar specials. 10 page website, including a contact form!!!! Can't beat that.
I don't know about your city, but the Portland, Oregon computer service crowd is really into unicode characters.
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Nothing gets my attention quite like unicode
JeevesBond posted this at 13:09 — 8th July 2009.
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This gave me a laugh, especially the Unicode!
There, fixed that for you.
*ducks*
webwiz posted this at 14:32 — 30th June 2009.
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Yes. Like everyone with an account on Twitter is a writer...
Greg K posted this at 15:48 — 30th June 2009.
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lol, is that all i need to do?
I'm rejecting the twitter scene for now... Heck I just recently started using facebook...
-Greg
webdesigner posted this at 08:41 — 7th July 2009.
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Same here, I'm more on Facebook than Twitter for now...
Renegade posted this at 18:11 — 30th June 2009.
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Totally agree here but like I keep saying, anyone can make a website, sure, but not everyone can design one.
Greg K posted this at 01:31 — 1st July 2009.
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You know, the more I go looking, the more I'm feeling sad for people who didn't know better. I just came across one CL ad, where some of the "portfolio" professional sites don't even have html, head, or body tags!!!
On any that have a "contact us" form, I'm giving them a brief message with the URL to html validator.
-Greg
davecoventry posted this at 09:48 — 4th July 2009.
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When I lived in Scotland and had just started out doing web design in the late nineties I tried to sell my services to a guy who told me that his twelve year old son knew more about computers than I'd ever know.
Sure, his twelve year old son could probably find his way around Windows 95 with a fair degree of competency, but could he Program in C, Perl, Basic, Java, to say nothing of Javascript and HTML.
Interesting to note that a municipality here in South Africa spent around R6.5 million on a website (7.5 USD to the Rand)
Greg K posted this at 14:16 — 7th July 2009.
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The more I got thinking about it, the more strange this seemed.
6.5million rand, and there is 7.5 USD for each rand would be nearly 49 million USD.
So I checked (the geek in me), and according to Google, there are 0.125353 US dollars per rand.
So this works out to be almost $815,000. Still pretty damn pricey though!
-Greg
JeevesBond posted this at 06:25 — 5th July 2009.
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They spent 6.4 million Rand on this?!
http://fifaworldcup.durban.gov.za/Silverlight/postcard.jpg
Surf’s up R6.4 million and they can't even get the grammar right. The incomprehensible domain, redirect to
Pages/Default.asspixand the links that don't even look like links are just the icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.AHAA HA HA HAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAA OHOHOHO HA HA! Ahhh, man that's a good one. Funniest thing I've heard all day. Unfortunately I'm too busy sticking forks in my eyes tonight to install Silverlight, maybe next time.
They could have used software from Mark Shuttleworth's company too, it's not as if anything on that site requires .NET. In fact, the dependency on Silverlight means people using GNU/Linux can't view the site at all. .NET is undergoing a crisis of trust at the moment as well (although I'm sure it would be capable of running a small Web site).
That was an excellent story Dave, thanks for sharing it.
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davecoventry posted this at 16:12 — 6th July 2009.
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Actually, JB, I didn't notice the reference to Silverlight. If there's one thing that get my blood boiling it's this thinly veiled attempt by Microsoft to use their dominant market share to push a product which is transparently designed to make their competition non-compliant with their own closed and proprietary standards.
JeevesBond posted this at 13:06 — 8th July 2009.
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Oh, I can sense we're going to get along really well!
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davecoventry posted this at 10:17 — 15th July 2009.
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Oh, I can sense we're going to get along really well! :D
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