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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Firstly really wasn't sure were to post this... but need some advice and it should be covert. I have been asked to get involved a a technical advisor to a friend who is currently procuring a web site from an offshore development house. i chuckled as well. Basically i need some help in drafting a response to the developer and making a recommendation as to whether they should go with this developer and also some comforting that my technical recomendations are correct and that i am not being too anal!! The developer produced a nice looking design in Photoshop, great. I then offered the initial technical recomendations - a site with separated content, presentation and logic, content ordered, with a CSS based layout (i.e. no tables for layout only for the presentation of data) and ideally xHTML 1x oh and the site should conform to accessibility standards such (e.g. Bobby AA) and i would expect the site to be html and css validated at WC3 - the site is a job site so should definitly be 100% accessible. This is the reaction i received from the developer. [quote]We don?t subscribe to the school of thought that believes in using ONLY CSS and no tables, we work with both and implement the best solution applicable to a specific page, I will not commit to working with a complete CSS based layout with no Tables. This does not affect the site functionality, interface design nor compatibility. As I mentioned we do not have a standard policy of validating with w3c but we will make an exception for your website and get the site validated by w3c. Accessibility as per Bobby AA is beyond the scope of the current work schedule, we will look into this and come back with further details.[/quote] I confirmed that tables should be used for data presentation only. My gut feeling is that they should find another developer but the client is seeing the $$$ in savings. Comments are very much appreciated. Cheers FR Loading...
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