Comments on: 9 Signs You Shouldn’t Hire THAT Web Guy

By: morteza

morteza — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:18:22 +0000

Thank you man for this post! But tell some other tests to distinguish between good and best guys!!

By: RedFox

RedFox — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 11:01:45 +0000

Totally true and funny!

I never coded dynamic site line by line, I mostly use CMS and customize it to my needs.

Don’t know how to do php and java from scratch, but I can modify it to my likings.

I can design well, so i consider myself designer!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:25:17 +0000

For all these commenters who declare that IE is 90% of browser activity, I encourage you to look at this: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp I absolutely agree that a website should be designed first for Firefox and then corrected for IE and other browsers.

It is so irritatingly simple to put an if-IE, then(code) clause in your code for users who prefer IE, i don’t understand why people don’t do so more often.

By: duarte

duarte — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:44:07 +0000

I would like to have a site with David Walsh name at the bottom ….

Great article… but sometimes the client is the “webmaster” and we have to comply.

By: SAFAD

SAFAD — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:29:25 +0000

The Last thing you said is a bit confusing
i won’t make the website work even if he gives me 99999999£ (well why lying ? ok if he gives me more bux for the IE6 i’ll do it for sure)
the IE6 is gone people
maybe you find some bugs in IE7 to chrome
but that bug won’t block me even for 1 hour
maybe it takes longer with IE6 but it worth for the extra $
Best Regards

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:08:34 +0000

@Keith Johnson – Sorry, forgot to mention, I do like your enthusiasm.

Good article, I would agree with all, except #7. Sometimes it’s quite relevant to know whether the person I’m about to hire is an HTML expert. I may hire a WebSphere Portal developer that I may need to develop Portlets, if he doesnt know HTML or JavaScript, I dont take him/her. And I will know if they say they are an expert and really arent.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Thu, 13 May 2010 06:01:20 +0000

@Keith Johnson: HTML is not the foundation of websites, it is merely the markup by which is most commonly used by browsers to display information. DOS is a dinosaur. So is IE6. It’s 2010, lets all move on.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 16:02:59 +0000

@Jorge: Me parece increíble que este tipo de cosas ocurran. ¡Qué vergüenza!, qué manera de destruir esto. Y se hace llamar “el maestro”, madre mía.

By: bipin karmacharya

bipin karmacharya — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:19:27 +0000

Noticable points on the post. Great comments too. All these things must be in mind of each and every freelancer either developer or the designer.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:02:22 +0000

+1 to the argument that Dreamweaver is a valid development tool.
+1 to the tasteful footer credit argument.

Also, putting a sitewide link back to your site (like in a “Designed by x” in the footer), can be devalued or even penalize you in Google. So, I’ve started adding nofollow to all internal pages, and leave one pure link back on the homepage.