Posted by Andy Dingley on 03/14/07 17:22

On 14 Mar, 10:25, "Richard Formby" <newsgro...@barefile.com.au> wrote:
> You've got to love those precious little client darhlings,

I wrote a big site a while back and just about managed to line the
client's design and pixel-perfect fetish up with being valid,
moderately fluid and even working on IE5/Mac! (25% budget over-run
thanks to the Mac issues).

Then they replaced it wtih this http://www.gamesradar.com
(the only "content" is in the 3rd letterbox down)

> Wrote this a year or two ago, for free, no charge, charity job, gratis. The
> local tennis club where I play tennis.

To be honest, I prefer their 2nd version. It _looks_ better.

Yes, technically yours does the business and is far better
implemented. However something as simple as that image background
makes it visually more appealing. I don't think they were wrong to
rework things (the customer isn't always right, but they're rarely
completely wrong), it's just a shame they couldn't have achieved what
they really wanted (a bit more eye candy) without breaking everything
else at no doubt vast expense.

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