[Wolves] SQL problem

[Matthew Revell]

Chris Procter wrote:

> 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.

Really not good enough :) If an individual or company wants to set 
themselves up a web expert, of some kind, the only way to prove that 
expertise is through a practical demonstration.

I take the point about the time spent on your own site could be spent 
making money, but I still say they should put in the extra time if they 
want to be taken seriously; the marketplace doesn't care if they haven't 
the time to put into designing their own site.

The reall issue, tho', is where companies *do* create a site but one 
that breaks so many basic rules. They demonstrate their ineptitude in 
the skills they expert people to pay them for.

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

I'd say this isn't to do with taste. I don't like the Toyote Corolla but 
I accept that it adheres to car design principles. The websites I'm 
talking about are not designed with poor taste: they're created with a 
flagrant disregard for the principles that the rest of us work so hard 
to promote.

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Cheers,

Matthew Revell.

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