[thelist] IE - The claret (white dotted line) on clickable images

[Joel D Canfield]

What a great success story. Paul, you might consider composing the whole
experience into an article for evolt.org. Between the negotiating
tactics you used with the client and the various comments posted this
morning, I'll bet it could be distilled into a pretty useful case study.

joel

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To everyone:

looks like we've got interesting debate here - many thanks to everyone -
your comments have been wicked. The client in question (not trying to be
nasty here) has about as much web sense as a salmon trying to jump its
way into a bears mouth - funny to watch but such a waste!

the site is supposed to be quick and specifically aimed at modem users -
i was happy with this, done sites for these circumstances loads of
times, BUT - the design i was given and the image spec supplied by the
client was hysterical - i took one look and then cracked up...animations
everywhere, graphically heavy images, fancy fades - curves - not a
chance, but its agreed (as you pointed out martin), i programmed the
site as the client wished with the understanding that any changes to the
site after completetion will be re-costed (cant remember the exact
wording - but basically if it fails to load quick on a modem because of
the design then we get paid more to sort it out for them) - and believe
me - on testing it takes almost 30 seconds per page to load - and thats
the best i can do for it. I started sacrificing image quality, but i
knew the outcome would be terrible - so re-design (by our designers this
time) and re-develop - and the client appologised for not listening to
us in the first place - which was nice.

cheers again everyone

paul





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