Re: Site for cririque - take 2

I must side with the idea NOT displaying buttons that do NOT have anything
to do with the client's business. IMHO, the display of such labels and links
that have to do with validation and professional membership of the Web
design team is a gratuitous and tacky advertisement for that Web design
team,. not to mention an invitation off the client's site. Moreover, and
totally my opinion, it strikes me as seen mostly on less professional
looking sites, by and large. I sometimes wonder if their display is not a
substitution for quality, professional design regardless of time spent.

The visitors and clients of your client could probably care less if the site
is accessible or uses proper CSS. They care only that the site is visible,
pleasing to the eye, navigable, and if it provides the information and/or
product they are looking for in an easy to use manner, not how you made it
easy to use. Additional information not relating to this is worthless at
best and distracting at worse. I believe this practice to be unfair to the
paying client who doesn't know any better, to be able to tell his design
people to stop that nonsense.

Validation information and professional memberships should remain on the Web
design teams own site. If you wish to put a small link at the bottom of the
client's page to the design team's page and you have permission from the
client for this, that is fine; or possibly make some remark in the source
code. HTML validation, CSS validation and validation programs are tools for
a professional developer and not some label giving bragging rights for an
advanced amateur or soapbox to promote certain standards one might believe
in.

Your website or WC3 or this forum might be an apropos place to promote
certain standards you personally endorse, but NOT a paying client's Website.

Craig T. Harding

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