There are so many half baked Web Developers around these days. Basically if you can create an HTML page (not to any standards) or using Dreamweaver etc and install some open source scripts that makes you a Web Developer? All websites seem to contist of these days is a CMS, phpBB for the bulletin board along with Coppermine for the photo gallery.
It is annoying because the average "users" do not see that the actual website took little effort to make, as in a simple click on the CMS install button etc.
Then there are these Web Development companies who know nothing about Web Development, yeah they might be able to install phpBB but when asked to integrate phpBB with System "X" they cannot do it. If asked to do something out of the ordinary they look around for open source scripts, and if none are available their stuck because they have no real idea how to do it. The amount of times I have seen person "X" ask on a forum, "Please help me I really need this script for a clients website I am coding" if they knew they could not do it, and they knew they could not be bothered to learn how to do it, why did they take the job?
They probably do not code there own HTML.
They do not custom code their own applications.
Their websites consist of a jumbled bolt together of current open source software, none of which integrate with any parts of their website.
And these are the so called "Professional" Web Development companies.
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There are so many half baked Web Developers around these days. Basically if you can create an HTML page (not to any standards) or using Dreamweaver etc and install some open source scripts that makes you a Web Developer? All websites seem to contist of these days is a CMS, phpBB for the bulletin board along with Coppermine for the photo gallery. It is annoying because the average "users" do not see that the actual website took little effort to make, as in a simple click on the CMS install button etc. Then there are these Web Development companies who know nothing about Web Development, yeah they might be able to install phpBB but when asked to integrate phpBB with System "X" they cannot do it. If asked to do something out of the ordinary they look around for open source scripts, and if none are available their stuck because they have no real idea how to do it. The amount of times I have seen person "X" ask on a forum, "Please help me I really need this script for a clients website I am coding" if they knew they could not do it, and they knew they could not be bothered to learn how to do it, why did they take the job? They probably do not code there own HTML. They do not custom code their own applications. Their websites consist of a jumbled bolt together of current open source software, none of which integrate with any parts of their website. And these are the so called "Professional" Web Development companies.