Go to
www.electrician.com to see the monster this experienced designer
(10000 pages) has created. You may be pleased to hear that website
almost the same in Firefox as it does in IE, unfortunately its
disgusting in both.
I recommend everyone visit his site to judge his skills in web design
and marketing.
I have never and will never judge a website on standards compliance. I
judge on content, usability, readability, marketing skill and visual
appeance (Not necessarily in this order)
What I assume is your site (
www.electrician.com) is fails miserably on
all of these test, I humbly apologise for my rude message if this is
not your site. Before I trash the incompentent fool who designed this
site please let me point out a few flaws in your logic.
There is no hypocrisy. I only have so much time to invest. Contrary
to what you say it takes a great deal of time to maintain "standards
compliant "pages, time that is a waste of time in my opinion. Who is
the standard bearer when 95 percent of the users comply with Microsoft?
W3C is out on the limb, I would say.
In that case I look forward to your explaination why Microsoft is
boasting about their efforts to acheive W3C compliance and apologising
for not fully acheiving their aim, Microsoft do not share your opinions
about W3C and standards.
They do not and probably will never fully implement W3c standards, and
they don't need to - their market share makes it unneccessary , but
they have improved on their last attempt because it is in their
commercial and technical interest to do so.
These are quotes from a developer on the IE7 project
"We fully recognize that IE is behind the game today in CSS support",
"we know Beta 1 makes little progress for web developers in improving
our standards support, particularly in our CSS implementation. I feel
badly about this.."
"In IE7, we will fix as many of the worst bugs that web developers hit
as we can"
The IE developers at Microsoft disagree with you troll boy.
FrontPage and PowerPoint work very well for me. I have produced about
330 illustrations in 2 months for my code change course. On my best
day I did 23 illustrated pages.
If your site is anything to go by it was 23 pages of nasty looking
crap.
PowerPoint has an excellent graphics
package that allows me to maintain production at about triple the
output per time using a combination of software packages such as ultra
edit, adobe illustrator, paint shop pro and Netscape Composer. I have
done it both ways for about 10 years and believe me FrontPage and
PowerPoint are the way to go. FrontPage is excellent. The JavaScript
debugger works fine and you can switch back and forth between script,
design, preview, and a split screen with a click of a button.
Standard features for a web development/design suite!
My preferred choice is Dreamweaver and paint shop pro but that is only
my subjective personal opinion.
Your productivity has little to do with the program itself and has more
to do with the fact that once you know a program well, eg the shortcuts
and toolbars, you can work at a greater speed than if you try out a
different program with similar functionality
FrontPage has the same drawing objects as PowerPoint and is very
similar.
Again most web design/develoment suites provide these feature, both
Macromedia and Adobe have products which do this. But as you are
experienced with Microsoft products then of course it is best you stick
to what you know best.
I have been there and back building about 10,000 web pages over the
last ten years
10,000 crap web pages makes you a shit web designer
And in my humble opinion these software packages are
unequaled for production verses time. And that is the key element -
output verses time.
The products are maythe best for you but they are not the best for
everyone.
I am most productive with Dreamweaver, Paint Shop Pro and Crimson
Editor.
For me it is much much quicker and easier to use these.
If I had to use the software you promote my productivity would drop
dramatically at first then over time it would increase as I learned my
way round the programs. If you changed to the ones I use the same would
happen, the productivity-time factor is not inherent to the programs it
is you experience in using them that makes you fastest with them. Get
the point yet?? Are you so stupid that you could not work this out for
yourself?
I don't really worry about the other browsers other than IE5+ because
like I said before, I sell a product and if a person can't afford
Windows XP and IE5.0+ then they probably are not going to buy the
products anyway.
A 2.3Ghz Mac running safari costs more than most 2.3Ghz pc running
windows. They won't buy your product because your amatuerish web site
has the same effect as a smelly fart in a enclosed space.
It takes a major amount of time to maintain
compatibility to the so called W3C standards, time which I do not have.
Developing a standards compliant page doesnt take much more time or
money than developing an non standard compliant page.
However if you have a large poorly written website like your which is
in urgent need of redeveloping from scratch (like yours) that is a
different matter.
If Bill Gates thought like you, he would still be working out of a
garage. It is all about marketing.
But your site (
www.electrician.com) does not display any knack for
marketing OR web design!!! And you are selling your domain name for
funds. What does that sauy about your marketing skill.
Your site fails every marketing test I know, the poorly written
content, a large course table which has a cell three words wide and 11
lines high. Did you intend to make your priice list unreadable??
This is not marketing!
The shocking layout and your habit of using links which contain 30+
words and covering three lines of the screen makes the content hard to
read and unattractive.
Don't worry though, your site is so ugly most people wont even bother
getting to the end of the page where you hid them.
And you put a link with your welcome message at the bottom of the
page!!! Where would you put your welcome doormat? In the attic?
I suggest you get a basic graphic/web design book and learn some of
basics of typography and layout before you claim to be a experienced
designer of 10,000 pages.
In summary your site looks so amatuerish it will deter most client who
can afford to buy your product so I am not surprised you are selling
the
www.electrian.com domain name to raise funds.