RE: Grrr!! Do-it-yourselfers!

Hi All:

Been following this thread with interest and thought I'd have my $.02.

I am not going to get into the "what makes a pro" debate because there
are too many definitions; literal, moral etc.

I would just like to make an observation about the tools that people
use.

Just because people use a development environment (most of them very
expensive, Dreamweaver, Cold Fusion, Hot Metal Pro etc.) that simplifies
their daiy tasks and don't painstakingly type every letter with a
pre-determined peck at the keyboard in a grass-roots basic text editor,
doesn't mean they're unprofessional.

Equally, just because someone uses an inexpensive environment
(FrontPage2000 or later) doesn't mean they're unprofessional either.  I
have seen some very slick sites created in FP.

I don't think anyone would call Micro$oft an unprofessional site.

I think the mark of a professional is not in what you use, but rather
what you do with it.  Personally, I don't care if someone wants to "do
it themselves"; I'd rather work for the ones who have the money so they
don't have to!! <BG>.

Marty

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org]
On Behalf Of Ben Russo
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:59 PM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: Re: Grrr!! Do-it-yourselfers!


> >I say a professional is someone who gets paid for a job.  Doesn't
> >matter
if
> >they are good at it or not.
> >Karin
>
>
> So by your definition, George W. Bush can finally be called a
professional? :)

AAAA HA HA HA!!!

It's funny cause it's true!  : )

Anyway.  That's the technical definition, sure.  But check this:

My condo is getting new windows.  The whole building is.  The
<i>contract</i> was for the project to be started in May.  They started
in July.  They suck too.  They did two floors of windows, then went on a
vacation.  Their work was messy - cracked glass everywhere, grime
everywhere the glass wasn't.  They're STILL doing the job.  The windows
suck too.

Technically, they are professionals.  But in reality, they're a bunch of
amateur laborers who do a bad job and I would never hire them.  But they
are professionals.

Same thing with these amateur frontpage web gurus.  They're
professionals. They probably have a very nice ad in the yellow pages
too, but they still suck and they rob the business away from the REAL
guys.

PS:  I think my window story would qualify as off topic...  : )

HWG hwg-techniques mailing list archives, maintained by Webmasters @ IWA