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Maintaining Standards
Letting Standards Slip
Ms M is studying usability and one example that came across her radar is the classy and friendly Unwired designed by HotHouse Interactive
Constructed as XHTML STRICT it now fails validation due to some pretty basic errors.
It seems like the contract may not have included ongoing maintenance.
I guess this is just another example of market place reality that too easily devalues Standards based design.
Does this happen because...
- the upside of Standards are not sold to the client.?
- maintenance is too expensive?
- its not seen as important?
How can Standards be more easily maintained so they don't fall through these real world cracks in the floor?
Re the site.... I would like it more if they would stop that Flash animation after it's first cycle.
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Must you attach your agreement with political points of view to this site? I understand that you have every right to display information as you please, but just because you can - doesn't mean you should. Please consider that people from all points of view refer to your site on a daily/weekly basis for information on the latest web standards and examples of outstanding web design. In the future, I would encourage you to leave out the political rhetoric as not to alienate visitors to your site and distract from the excellent technical and design commentary you provide.
Cordially,
Tim Evans
A fan of your site...
United States of America
Tim , thanks for your post. I guess there is a long and a short answer. I'll stick with the short.
I reserve the right to post very occasional non web related articles on this site. If these offend, all I can say is sorry, however if such posts were dollar bills you would be a poor man collecting them.
Comments noted. Cheers.
Go Aussie!
I cant see Telstra playing in this field.
Re the Standards issue, I guess it just points out the benefit of winning a site maintenance clause in the contract. The issues with this site are easily fixed so it wouldnt send Unwired broke :)
Great personal site you have there as well :)
Mark
Executive Producer
HotHouse
Nice work from Hothouse.
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