Toronto Broad

Website Redesign

// September 16th, 2005 // Just Stuff

Today I visited the website of a company I used to work for. It had been a part of my job to update their website, but the President of the company always wanted the site done using Front Page (so that he could edit it himself, if need be), and so it had an amateurish, “Front Page” kind of layout set up in frames.

Regardless, I made a few changes to the site while there and at least made the website xhtml compliant, no matter how it looked since he was not overly open to the idea of change.

Well today I saw that they’d overhauled the site and it looked pretty good. It would have been nice if I had been allowed to make it look good.

However, what I did see was that the company they hired to redo the site, did not make the site standards compliant. As a matter of fact, the site was backwards compliant and was all designed using tables and no css. They didn’t even have a doctype in their coding, and were using old html in the body.

I had to laugh. No forward thinking for this company. They probably didn’t even know what to ask the designing company for.

I guess that’s what happens when you’ve got the right people doing the wrong jobs. Ah well, they can just pay for it to be redone again in a year or so.