Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 08/23/07 02:05

For more than three years, I have been beating my head against the wall
trying to get my boss to understand that a web site is not a piece of
paper.

I must have done a good job. The charity for whom she just took over as
president hired someone to do their web site. Today she emailed this
person and told him in no uncertain terms that the site had to pass
strict validation, CSS, and Cynthia Says. She gave him the URLs to test
with, and even offered to have me test (I've already done that of course
- and it failed). Why, she even told the guy he needed to use semantic
markup!

Then she nicely explained the reasons to validate:
1. Check for problems that can cause havoc in different browsers
2. SEO
3. Pride in knowing you have no markup errors.

So, there's hope out there for those of you who have bosses/clients who
don't/won't understand. Just keep educating.

--
Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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