E-Musings Mon Immorata

Whymper! Whymper! Nope, this post has nothing to do with a tale about Edward Whymper who climbed Switzerland's Matterhorn. But with a client. OK, Rollback time. I consult on Web site development. And one particularly miserly client decided they could cut costs by updating the pages themselves. By modifying pages - originally developed using hand-coding - in Front Page 2000. And guess what? FrontPage broke the page really effectively. But being FrontPage it went on to break every other linked page as well - 45 pages zapped. No banner, no navigation menu. Of course I agreed to fix the site (they're over the barrel). But for a consideration. Natch! Actually the guys I'm consulting with are a right royal pain. These are among the most inefficient Web site developers I have worked with. But then considering the economies of scale (bill in US$ but pay salaries in cents) I suppose they can continue to lurch from one project to the next! Saw a really cool Fireworks-designed site today. Do check it out. You're gonna bet it uses Flash. Nope! Its all 10-11 kB JPEGs.