Posted by Timothy Ace Holleran on 06/06/07 07:42

It's hard for me to believe how devoted you are to coding, all of you, when
your sites look so ugly.

You are so worried about insipid coding that you have lost sight of cogent
design.

The jonathan little and west virginia sites are eyeslaughter. If I gave my
clients dog-doo like that, I would starve.

You can rant about CSS and your silly standards, thinking that this is all
hard-and-fast science. It's also about aesthetics, a topic which is foreign
to you. It doesn't matter a whit how much HTML, XML, JS, Flash or Ajax you
know if the end result looks like the amateurish pabulum you put on the web.

I know all these standards. I make my living developing web sites. Good,
basic HTML tutelege is available readily on HTMLGoodies, no matter how old
it is. I'm sure there are other, newer sites with better tips. Again, I say,
how can you dispense advice when you can't build an attractive one of your
own?

Stop trying to be cutting-edge and worry about the general look and feel of
your sites. Then counsel others.

You are more concerned about how to build a clock than if it actually works.

Bring it on, skirts.

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