Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/17/07 12:33

On 16 Oct, 19:15, mbstevens <NOXwebmast...@xmbstevensx.com> wrote:

> Once you've warned them, if people want to
> pay for crap, well, it's their business and their money -- back off.

I disagree with that. IMHO, one of the functions of the "competent
expert in the field" is to _educate_ the consumer.

Customers don't set out "wanting to buy crap". They often start by
wanting to buy something that _is_ crap, but they want it because they
also think, mistakenly, that this is the way it ought to be. A
customer who's told by one designer that "pixel-perfect is best" or
"fox your fint sizes" won't know that it's a bad idea (and why should
they?). Our job, as technical experts, is to educate them on the
reasons why we think such techniques lead to crap sites.

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