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HTML vs XHTML

Posted January 6 in Design.
html vs. xhtml

What is wrong with this picture?

So much. I don’t even know where to begin. I won’t link where this came from because I don’t want to flame a serious business, but I just wanted to put it out there.

In other news, I’ve spent the weekend working on Construct and I’m about a third of the way to finishing version 0.4. You can check it out now and see if you spot some new features ;)

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  1. Vidar January 7, 2008

    oh yeah, serious business indeed.

  2. Jermayn Parker January 7, 2008

    I would have thought it was a joke if you were not serious :|

  3. Aaron January 7, 2008

    Don’t you remember the rule that anything with an X in it is better, cooler and more expensive?

  4. Christian Montoya January 7, 2008

    Aaron: I’m worried that people are actually falling for that. I’m also wondering what this “business” defines as the difference between HTML and XHTML, and how that could possibly be worth $46.

  5. Patrick Teong January 8, 2008

    You know what, using google type “psd to html $29″, the site appear.

    Back to topic, the price gap between HTML and XHTML too big.

  6. Christian Montoya January 8, 2008

    That’s not all, Patrick. In my opinion, there should be no price gap. Anyone who is any good at HTML/XHTML knows that it doesn’t require any extra work to do one or the other. When I was in this business, I did multiple pages, admittedly for a bit more because I don’t undersell, but it didn’t matter if the client asked for HTML or XHTML, the cost was the same.

  7. Jem January 8, 2008

    LOL. Pay to have it done as HTML and then chuck in a few forward slashes? ;)

  8. webmack January 8, 2008

    In the order form on the right, in the alleged website the ‘coding requirement’ field has two options

    HTML + CSS [with table]
    XHTML + CSS [tableless]

    Which makes me think that psd to HTML is table based layout and psd to XHTML is tableless. Misinterpretation or thats what they are defining as the difference perhaps?

  9. Christian Montoya January 8, 2008

    webmack: It looks like that’s what they are defining as the difference. That’s a shame, because they are selling sub-par work at a very low price, which would probably lead most customers to buy the sub-par work when they really ought to invest in something more future-proof (and I’m not implying that XHTML is more future-proof at all; I’m implying that tableless layouts are more future-proof).

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