There are a lot of companies out there that do web design work that looks fabulous.
Unfortunately, a lot of these sites look fabulous only when viewed in IE6 build xxxx, with a 75dpi monitor, fonts set to the expected size, running on Windows XP SP2, with JavaScript enabled. Try looking at the site through Safari, Firefox, with larger-than-expected fonts, and things break down: text boxes overlap each other, buttons that should work don’t, and it becomes a mess.
So, if your employer wanted a web design company that has a good grasp of Web standards and the appropriate use of them, where would you look? A company that can write good HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and still make the site look appealing? A company that has heard of Apache and gets the appropriate nausea when someone mentions ColdFusion or Frontpage?
So far, I’ve seen these places mentioned by others:
Thanks for the plug John! Nice to see the word spreading about our services in open source website development!
-Brad
FYI, happy cog uses pixel sizes in the definition of its font sizes, which does not work well on different resolutions.
Ugh. Thanks for the catch.
Leaving out browsers that were written in 1994 to run on Windows 3.1 and such, I disagree. I think it is possible to make a website that runs on any modern browser in reasonably common use. Stick to standards and you’ll be fine.