Comments on: Leaving standards at the door?

By: willow

willow — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Please consider allowing password protection for specific entries or the whole blog itself. It would be so handy!

By: The Complimenting Commenter

The Complimenting Commenter — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I think it’s great that things are improving at work. I hope that they continue to make it
better. The blog looks great.

By: Stuart Colville

Stuart Colville — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Thanks for your comments, I was looking to make the redesign clean, simple and not overcomplicated.

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I really like your website. I like how its simple and streamlined and easy to follow.

By: Timbo

Timbo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I work with Stu and agree with his views on standards at work.

The majority of problems arise from the fact that several members of the team don’t persue web design and development outside of the office. This results in them only ever using the coding styles and methods they’ve either been taught at college or university, or that they’ve learnt from a book.

As web geeks, those that do stuff outside of the office usually develop their skills and, through their own interest, start to learn about standards.

Since only three of us (out of six) are pushing web standards, it’s difficult to get the other developers to change as the desire is absent.

Basically, it’s difficult to get people to change their methods if they don’t want to - even if you can prove the new method is infinitely better…