[thelist] My 12 year old son can do websites

Abhay S. Kushwaha kushwaha at netsolutionsindia.com
Thu Jan 15 04:33:58 CST 2004


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Hi John:

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 04:35:36 -0500 (EST), john at johnallsopp.co.uk
wrote:

> I don't know if this is off topic or not (I'll tip anyway), but a
> client said to me yesterday "my 12 year old son made a really good
> looking website yesterday using Microsoft Publisher, do you use
> that?"

<snip />

> I'm not quick with my responses, so I'm looking for a one line
> response that puts it in a nutshell. You must all have come across
> this, so how do you respond.

<snip />

I typically counter such with something like "Microsoft Publisher is
like a 35mm point-and-shoot camera - it will get the job done for
anybody who knows the basics of photography - point & click; the tools
we use are like the hardware and accessories used by professional
photographers who know it takes a lot more than just point & click to
get the job done right." It has always got the point across.

Further, try to sound educative in your response - in such that you
respect the achievement of his son but that is not a professional-
level work that you do. If the conversation goes deeper, then maybe
you can try to explain the difference of 'generated' and 'hand-coded'
markup, importance of knowledge of various facets, facts and issues
involved in web design, etc. Who knows, you just might end up
mentoring his son to become a good web-coder/designer. :)

My 2p.

[abhay]
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