Idevs

Ok, I have had enough!

• Enough with the crappy pre-made templates
• Enough with the table based layouts
• Enough with the Ajax first - accessibility later mentality
• Enough with the “i use dreamweaver” crowd.
• Enough with the buy now, sell in 2 days domain name culture
• Enough with the search engine optimisation “companies”.
• Enough with Page Rank blindness.
• Enough with the no content sites
• Enough with the Ignorant web developers!

The web could be a great place:

• If the people developing cared more about content than they do about style.
• If people cared more about their content than about keyword density.
• If people actually started to learn to markup by hand again.
• If people cared about accessibility

I am going to make a pledge. From this day forward, I am going to do my best to destroy the current mentality and to replace it with one of content, accessibility and semantics.

If you agree with me please do the same.

• If you see a site using outdated techniques tell them.
• If you see a site using Ajax without having an underlying accessible alternative tell them.
• Start adding semantic markup to your posts and sites
• Tell others to do the same.

We can have a great, content rich web, all we need to do is work on it.

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