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rudy r937 at interlog.com
Thu Nov 30 09:19:23 CST 2000


> please pose questions that require more than gruntwork...

hey, wait a sec, some of us like doing gruntwork  ;o)

i have three rates --

    $40/hr if it requires no thought (i.e. gruntwork)
    $60/hr if it requires skill
    $80/hr if it requires creativity

for example, plain html that doesn't have to validate (like on my company's
intranet <grin>) would be gruntwork

writing cf logic or database stored procedures would require skill

designing a database to minimize the amount of cf foolingaround or the need
for stored procedures, now that would require creativity

to be honest, i have yet to try out this rate structure in the real world,
so this is still just a bit of a pipe dream...



<tip>
font face in css is fairly bulletproof in all css-capable versions of the
two major browsers (can't speak for opera or any others, never having tried
them, but i haven't heard any contradictions, either)...  it is one of
those things that just seems to work really well, once you get used to
quirks like sometimes it doesn't inherit from BODY to P, but i solve that
problem by just hammering it home like this --
     BODY, P, TD, TH, TD P, TH P, et cetera
      { font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }
</tip>

<tip>
speaking of fonts, check out the resources here --
   Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Font Issues
    http://www.websitetips.com/design/index.html
i especially enjoyed reading this page --
    http://users.hit.net/~bobbau/platforms/MacArialFonts/
which explains which order to list your faces in
</tip>


oh goodie, i finally get a chance, having contributed a couple real tips,
to pass on this somewhat off-topic link to some real-world stories of
outrageous client requests --

   http://www.dreamless.org/ubb/Forum1/HTML/001318.html

perhaps not so off-topic after all...


rudy.ca





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