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Posted by windandwaves on 10/14/05 04:45
Mark Parnell wrote:
> In our last episode, windandwaves <winandwaves@coldmail.com>
> pronounced to alt.html:
>
>> How do you convince your clients they need to clean up their mess
>> "behind the scenes"?
>
> Bandwidth - clean pages are smaller, therefore much less bandwidth
> used. This can make a big difference, especially for big sites.
>
> WRT CSS vs presentational HTML, code maintenance is much quicker and
> easier - changes are made in one place, not throughout every file in
> the site.
>
> Not sure about NZ, but here in Australia, and in many other countries,
> accessible sites are required by law. It's much easier to make a site
> accessible if it's coded properly.
I have heard this argument before, but I do not think it is the case for
business. Government sites sure, but as a business you can put whatever you
want on your site and that, i think, is fair enough. I would not want
anyone telling me how to structure my pages - that stops progress.
>> and can we blame frontpage + dreamweaver for this mess?
>
> Frontpage to an extent, Dreamweaver (recent versions at least) less
> so. Ultimately it's clueless web authors that are truly to blame - if
> they didn't accept rubbish code, the editors would have to play nice.
Yep, true. Ultimately, it always comes back to choice.
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