Giving them what they paid for: A (sort of) Follow-up

In my last post I discussed a particular web design company’s lack of standards compliance and broke down, why I thought that, although they were cheap, they didn’t offer value for money. This time, I’m going to look at the same issue but from the other side. As a designer, you want to give your client the best but at the same time you don’t want to sell yourself short. Of course there are standards that, no matter what the project, you need to stick to… text alternatives to images, always declaring a doctype, these are fundamentals. But published guidelines can get very very picky and sticking to them 100%… well, it can be a bitch. How far is it feasible to take it?

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