RE: Rockville, MD- Seeking low vision users for testing federal w ebsite

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, RUST Randal wrote:

> John Foliot said:
> > Another issue is dealing with content creators who are 
> > accustomed to writing material and seek to "publish" there 
> > tomes on the internet.  We also have "designers" who approach 
> > web development strictly from an esthetic perspective, with 
> > little thought to underlying functionality.
> 
> Precisely.  I think that's it's just been in the last few months that I
> realized that uneducated developers are just as bad as uneducated designers.
> And in my case, through the use of tools such as Struts, our developers are
> having to jump through hoops to make it produce proper markup.  I think
> they'd be better off just leaving it behind and writing everything properly
> from the start.

right, I'm not a web designer but rather an engineer but I always tell
anyone to "write it up and put your whole web site together completely
using ascii text then when it is done and working right, add in your
little "pretties and eye candy" but make sure you have a fully functional
and understandable site BEFORE putting up anything but clear text"  not
perfect by any means but they have to put something together that is not
dependent on graphics so it is a lot easier to clean up what they still
manage to mess up.

and NO pdf, period!

Bob

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Received on Wednesday, 18 December 2002 09:17:30 UTC