JeevesBond wrote: Oh, I can

davecoventry — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:17:43 +0000

JeevesBond wrote:

Oh, I can sense we're going to get along really well! :D

This gave me a laugh,

JeevesBond — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:09:18 +0000

This gave me a laugh, especially the Unicode!

10 page website, including a contact form!1!!11one

There, fixed that for you.

*ducks*

If there's one thing that

JeevesBond — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:06:23 +0000

If there's one thing that get my blood boiling it's this thinly veiled attempt by Microsoft to use their dominant market share to push a product which is transparently designed to make their competition non-compliant with their own closed and proprietary standards.

Oh, I can sense we're going to get along really well!

The more I got thinking

Greg K — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:16:48 +0000

The more I got thinking about it, the more strange this seemed.

6.5million rand, and there is 7.5 USD for each rand would be nearly 49 million USD.

So I checked (the geek in me), and according to Google, there are 0.125353 US dollars per rand.

So this works out to be almost $815,000. Still pretty damn pricey though!

-Greg

Same here, I'm more on

webdesigner — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:41:00 +0000

Same here, I'm more on Facebook than Twitter for now...

Actually, JB, I didn't

davecoventry — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:12:32 +0000

Actually, JB, I didn't notice the reference to Silverlight. If there's one thing that get my blood boiling it's this thinly veiled attempt by Microsoft to use their dominant market share to push a product which is transparently designed to make their competition non-compliant with their own closed and proprietary standards.

They spent 6.4 million Rand

JeevesBond — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:25:53 +0000

They spent 6.4 million Rand on this?!

http://fifaworldcup.durban.gov.za/Silverlight/postcard.jpg
Surf’s up R6.4 million and they can't even get the grammar right. The incomprehensible domain, redirect to Pages/Default.asspix and the links that don't even look like links are just the icing on the cake as far as I'm concerned.

To experience this amazing interactive feature please get Silverlight below...

AHAA HA HA HAAA HAAAAAA HAAAAA OHOHOHO HA HA! Ahhh, man that's a good one. Funniest thing I've heard all day. Unfortunately I'm too busy sticking forks in my eyes tonight to install Silverlight, maybe next time.

They could have used software from Mark Shuttleworth's company too, it's not as if anything on that site requires .NET. In fact, the dependency on Silverlight means people using GNU/Linux can't view the site at all. .NET is undergoing a crisis of trust at the moment as well (although I'm sure it would be capable of running a small Web site).

That was an excellent story Dave, thanks for sharing it.

When I lived in Scotland and

davecoventry — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:48:06 +0000

When I lived in Scotland and had just started out doing web design in the late nineties I tried to sell my services to a guy who told me that his twelve year old son knew more about computers than I'd ever know.

Sure, his twelve year old son could probably find his way around Windows 95 with a fair degree of competency, but could he Program in C, Perl, Basic, Java, to say nothing of Javascript and HTML.

Interesting to note that a municipality here in South Africa spent around R6.5 million on a website (7.5 USD to the Rand)

You know, the more I go

Greg K — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:31:25 +0000

You know, the more I go looking, the more I'm feeling sad for people who didn't know better. I just came across one CL ad, where some of the "portfolio" professional sites don't even have html, head, or body tags!!!

On any that have a "contact us" form, I'm giving them a brief message with the URL to html validator.

-Greg

Totally agree here but like

Renegade — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:11:05 +0000

Totally agree here but like I keep saying, anyone can make a website, sure, but not everyone can design one.