Re: UKNM: Half of UK sites are "broken"

[Amanda Christie]

I'm surprised that any specialist wishing to retain their client would

intend to continue loading costs throughout a project.


Also that anyone would send a job without ensuring it WAS fully

tested.  If it's your job - you want to do it properly.  Secretaries

don't charge extra for spell checking!  And I wouldn't even add the

cost of checking my work to my clients invoices.


Am I foolish?


A


---Lee Rickler <

leeurbanmediadesigns [dot] com

> wrote:

>

> I originally said:

> >>When quoting for a job, a major proportion would/ should/ does

cover 

> >>browser testing, code optimisation, platform compatibility, link

testing 

> >>etc.

> 

> and then David Bentley replied:

> >Indeed - but historically in the UK the need to win business has

> >conveniently 'allowed' agencies to strike that bit from the budget

to be

> >more competitive - and the clients don't know better.

> 

> Agreed .. but there are 2 angles to this, and this in effect would

depend 

> on how well you know your client:

> 

> 1, To show that you care about your work/ clients image your heart

and 

> soul should be put into the work. This would include, and be "client 

> aware", basic content/ structure awareness.

> 

> 2, If a client sees in a budget that you are going to put some effort 

> into the project, and not just slap together their art directors

wishes, 

> then surely this should show for something.

> 

> On an average site, (approx 100 pages), I suspect that it wouldn't

take 

> more than an hour to spell check and another hour on the finished

site to 

> link check on a _very_ slow machine.

> 

> I run a site, djindex.com, that has approx 500 pages, over 1,000

elements 

> in total. Recently I did a spell and link check on the whole project

at 

> once and it took 10 minutes.

> 

> >>It really isn't that hard to maintain a site, (quality Project

manager 

> >>anyone?), especially with the tools available today.

> >It is all about money most of the time - no budget; no QA.

> 

> That's my problem .... I'm a <new term>Wippy</new term>. In a sense

it 

> means that I have a hippy attitude to my web work. Passion for the 

> project is, in my mind, more important than finance.

> 

>      Cheers,

> 

>      Lee

> 

>

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