[Wolves] SQL problem

[Chris Procter]

For small web-design companies the time it takes to create a nice site for
your own business could just as easily be spent building a nice site for
someone who will pay, and when you live hand to mouth (as most small
companies do) getting paid at the end of the month depends on doing enough
paying work during that month.

Plus the fact that a lot of people out there just have really bad taste but
dont realise it.


chris



-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Revell [mailto:wolveslug at understated.co.uk]
Sent: 17 March 2004 15:44
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [Wolves] SQL problem


sparkes wrote:

>> The site isnt the best and the sister company
>>www.www-developer.com is exactly the same but blue.
> 
> aahhh, now that's a dreamweaver template ;-)

Okay, here's a story. I'm a jewellery designer. I go to at least one 
fashion event each week. All around me, at these events, are other 
jewellery designers who wear the most beautiful of their creations, 
stunningly offset against subtle clothing, to emphasise the beauty of 
their jewellery.

Strangely, tho', I see a small, but significant minority, of jewellery 
designers who've been to Elizabeth Duke, at Argos, or to H Samuel, and 
have bought myriad cheap rings, necklaces and earrings, cramming as many 
as they can onto their body. Others, of this crowd, turn up wearing 
jewellery they've designed themselves, but even a five year old child 
would consider it to be embarrassing.

I don't understand. They call themselves jewellery designers. They hope 
to earn their living through selling jewellery designs. These fashion 
events are where people find out about them but, nonetheless, they turn 
up to these places wearing cheapo stuff that other people have made, or 
some of them come wearing absolute rubbish, that they've made themselves.

What's going on, eh? Why are there so many web services firms ... sorry, 
I mean jewellery designers ... who clearly just *don't get* web design, 
usability, information architecture, web content, or any other aspect of 
communicating via the web? Sorry, I mean "don't understand making 
jewellery".

Oh, and this is the best picture I've seen on the web for a very long time:

http://www.www-developer.com/images/worried.jpg


-- 

Cheers,

Matthew Revell.

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