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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 666716, member: 57463&quot;]<b>A poor workman blames his tools.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I said above that I work in Microsoft FrontPage.&nbsp; For my ANA column earlier this year, I interviewed several coin club webmasters and I was surprised -- shocked, I tell you -- at how many work in Notepad, coding HTML directly. What are other people using?</p><p><br /></p><p>For the MSNS club site, there are a few things in PDF that I do not like, but it is just about all in HMTL.&nbsp; For my own website, some of the links open up Word Documents.&nbsp; Those are academic papers with footnotes and other formating that I did not want to mess with.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just about all images are JPEGs.&nbsp; Just about all of the buttons are GIFs. </p><p><br /></p><p>I had someone complain about my lame attempt to do frames via Microsoft.&nbsp; I actually tested the website with several browsers, but apparently not whatever he was using.&nbsp; The point is to test your work both for Mac and PC and cross-platform if you can.&nbsp; (At my university, the graduate office runs Macs.&nbsp; I had a bear of a time getting forms to display and load on my PC, even with their browser from Apple for Windows installed here.&nbsp; So, I went to their offices and did the work.)&nbsp; You cannot test too much.</p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed that if you have someone else do the work, you must tell them what you want.&nbsp; If you cannot rough out an idea with common computer tools, then draw it.&nbsp; If that is too much work, then you do not have an idea worth pursuing.&nbsp; (Honestly: you have to be invested in your efforts.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed, also, that kids in college are talented and cheap.&nbsp; They are cheap for two reasons: their talent is not tempered by experience; they do not put you first.&nbsp; </p><ol> <li>I think of the old AT&amp;T internet commercial where the old businessman says &quot;I want order entry tied to sales and purchasing with realtime updates for billing.&quot;&nbsp; And the kid says, &quot;I can give you a flaming logo or a spinning logo.&quot;&nbsp; </li> <li>When it is finals week, what are your chances of getting anything from them?</li> </ol><p>Just to say...&nbsp; May be you have seen the sign:</p><p><span style="color: Blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4">PICK TWO</font></font></span></p><p><span style="color: Blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size="4"> <ul> <li>GOOD</li> <li>FAST</li> <li>CHEAP</li> </ul><p></font></font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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