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Originally Posted by Gino
I don't think ur missing anything, but just make sure the code is valid when your done if you can:
http://validator.w3.org/
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
Also make sure you do some SEO stuff like in your header the META tags, such as keywords, site description, page titles, subheadings for content, keywords in the content, favicon for when the site is bookmarked and such could be done.
Some of these things though are prob not in ur original contract, since they fall under search engine optimization, but you should keep them in mind and mention them to him. If it was me I would charge extra for these services. |
Most of that SEO stuff I would've lumped in (and probably still will) . . . I didn't realize that was usually a separate consideration altogether (see, that's why this forum is so great for us independents). I appreciate the links to validators, thanks!
Since I'm looking at this as a showcase project (and the client's brand is one I really want to continue to do great work for), I'm very motivated to do this the best I can--even if it takes a while. Whenever I go overtime on a project because I'm tweaking it to meet my standards, I usually consider the extra hours as a contribution to my own marketing (whereas saying "good enough" probably would cost me referrals in the long run). You're right, Angilius, about this type of thing always taking longer than you think--learning Illustrator as I worked made my first few projects (all for myself) take forever!
Two months seems long to me (I'm reasonably well acquainted with Dreamweaver, for my purposes, and I'm not going to be doing anything advanced from a coding standpoint)--I'm thinking the process will take about three weeks (I hope). We'll see, I guess.
Thanks for the insight everyone!