Posted by Mark Parnell on 10/14/05 02:06

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.

> 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.

--
Mark Parnell
http://clarkecomputers.com.au
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