In colleges they teach frontpage and depricated html tags..OMG…there is a whole world of students out there doing City and Guilds and OCN in depricated invalid markup.

When I mention following standards in the LEA…people just look at me blankly and say ” theres no time” and “it works in Internet Explorer”

(weeps silently)

Add to this the number of web design companies that themselves have hardly moved forward and embraced new web standards, the marketing muscle of Microsoft, Dreamweaver and Adobe etc and its not difficult to see where wrong decisions are made.

Where does the fault lie, I would have to say it’s up to everyone involved in web standards, open source tools and the like to make a better job of getting their message across and beyond the web developer community – Certainly most of the clients I visit have a less Knowledge than they think they do and its pretty rare they would have heard of software such as WordPress

You only have to look at the code they use to produce there shitty sites, oh and I love this part.

“We’re giving away free websites and site building tools with Moonfruit and Zyweb”

Moonfruit – Rubbish flash templates.

Zyweb – Rubbish HTML templates.

Considering the this is part of government project (and they tend to build farther cool valid and accessible sites) I really cant understand where they are going with this?

Perhaps you should pop along to one of these sessions and give some demo’s of WordPress and TextPattern.

Oh and they also have google ads, why do they need google ads?, Perhaps this “linking to the channel 4 website” is some weird google marketing ploy.