Eric Meyer: Stand Up For Your Rights!
I simply have to cross-post this article for you to read. Read the article ‘Stand up for your Rights’ and give your input.
My input to the article was:
“VERY well said. I have been pondering exactly what you have put into words. What we experience as developers, is really experienced in every other field as well. Truth is, people still make a business out of doing things they know nothing about.
However, instead of constantly ripping those people — I have worked on the approach of helping them where I can. This has proven to be very frustrating as well. They want to get paid for the job, but they don’t want to know how to do it. They don’t understand the importance of doing something the right way — they just want to make the client happy with a sub-par product (and both parties go away happy — not knowing there is something better out there).
I think in this profession we can attribute this mindset to the thinking that ‘everyone can have a webpage’,‘everyone can be a web designer’, etc. train of thought that initially was moving around. It simply isn’t that easy. There are professional tools, you need to understand your medium. Understand how a server interacts with a client machine. Understand some common response codes. Understand how the pages interact with different browsers. Understand how the browsers work when handling scripts/styles/HTML/etc. The list goes on.
Truth is, people (Web developers) don’t see that as important. Why should they? They have GoLive and Dreamweaver to do all of the work for them.”
On a side note, my wife and I are heading to Chicago for the weekend for a little getaway. We are going to check out some museums (art and historical), aquariums, and some good pizza places. I’ll see you all when we get back on Sunday.