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• Everybody is an idiot but you. (Score:1)

  by Sifmole (3409) on 2003.07.10 7:11 (#21917)

  In most cases these sites are done on shoestring budgets -- most likely for prices you would flat out bust a gut from laughter over.
  
  Quality website development that is cross-platform compliant, looks good, and functions well for the vast majority of people is not something your average sixth-grader (is that what 6th form means) can accomplish.
  
  I have been doing Internet development for 10 years and have seen an amazing amount of absolute garbage; I however am not so conceited to believe, without any inside knowledge of budget or time or other restrictions, that everybody involved must have been an idiot. Honestly I do wonder sometimes -- but then I see the mistakes I make every so often and become sufficiently humbled.

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  • Re:Everybody is an idiot but you. (Score:1)

    by blech (1597)

    Sixth form is between 16 and 18 in the UK.
    • Re:Everybody is an idiot but you. (Score:2)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      Used to be. It's probably "year 14" now or something like that.

      But most people will still understand "6th Form" better.

      -Dom
  • Re:Everybody is an idiot but you. (Score:2)

    by TeeJay (2309)

    This just the thing that is annoying - the government is throwing money at egovernment and produced guidelines and suchlike.

    Internal policies on hiring inexperienced internal staff to do the jobs of professionals combined with pointy haired council bosses expecting everything to be microsoft (because they recognise the name from tv ads) ensure that huge ammounts of money are wasted on new computers and licenses and training inexperienced people to use crap technology like asp.

    There is absolutely no excu

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