I really really REALLY REALLY dislike cowboy wannabe thinks-they’re-right-when-they’re-woefully-out-of-date so-called web designers.
Web standards are there for a reason – to maintain standards! Hacks are fine, IF the designer knows what they’re doing, and will take the future of the website into account. Don’t make editing in the future hard for everyone else!
PLUS, if the website was originally designed in one way, FIND out how it was designed FIRST, and then edit accordingly. DO NOT break convention, because when the next person comes along and tries to edit it the way it was originally intended to be edited, they’re going to have a massive headache.
No wonder everyone’s moving to a CMS. Not everyone is well-equipped enough to deal with CODE.
Coding is like chemistry. Mix it wrongly and it’ll blow up in your face. No wonder everyone likes to stick to pre-mixed formulas, so they don’t have to deal with the nitty gritty of the mix.
Coders, you have more in common with lab pharmacists than you think.
Unfortunately, there are still people out there who are code cowboys, and think that because they know HTML 1.0 and CSS 1.0 they can edit XHTML and CSS 3.0. And that’s when the big picture gets messy. Sure, it fixes the little details, but what about the rest of the website??? You know the chaos theory? A website is a little self-contained chaos theory demonstrator. Have one little thing out of place and the entire thing goes to shot.
Ok. Rant over. Back to work!
