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Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 06/15/07 14:28
Travis Newbury wrote:
> On Jun 15, 6:33 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attglobal.net> wrote:
>> Your website is a reflection on your business. A good website reflects
>> well on your company. And a poor website reflects poorly.
>
> My point exactly. To the casual surfer (read that as almost everyone
> but a professional web designer) that website looks and works
> perfectly fine. No one going to that site looking for soap will look
> at the source code and say
>
> "Damn this company has shitty HTML code! SON OF A BITCH! They used
> WORD and not Notepad!!! I am going to their competitor!!!!"
Ah therein lies the rub, they rarely work well. As with said example is
flooded with MS BS:
<!--[if gte vml 1]><v:rect id="_x0000_s1173"
style='position:absolute;left:0;
top:123pt;width:132.82pt;height:450pt;z-index:17;visibility:visible;
mso-wrap-edited:f;mso-wrap-distance-left:2.88pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:2.88pt;
mso-wrap-distance-right:2.88pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:2.88pt'
fillcolor="#ffebae [2 lighten(102)]"
....
that mega-bloat of the code where the mere markup excluding images can
be unbelievable! That simple page is 60K without the images and if done
properly would be under 2K, only 30x bloat! Now if the page had any
significant amount of content it would not take much imagination to
guess how it would load on dialup.
Next, even though the example page:
http://www.thesagewreath.com.au/index_files/Page1279.htm
looks decent, it completely borks if you change the text size...so
access ability is out the window. And since most of the content reads as
comments does it even work with a screen reader?
And how about my friend's infamous site, a true MS Publisher marvel!
Thankfully it is not longer up, www.redskyibizans.com. To any anyone
without IE you got a blank grey page!
>
> To you, a professional, yes it [technically] sucks, to my mom, who is
> looking to buy soap, and wouldn't know how to view the source code if
> her life depended on it, it looks and works fine. And she will buy
> the soap.
You don't sell soap if the page doesn't work. And many don't, and this
one was lucky, because that MS funky code to "protect" (a Publisher
method I believe) and position images usually makes the site MS-only.
>
> A "good" website is one that helps your business regardless of how it
> was built or who built it.
>
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Take care,
Jonathan
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http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com
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