I’ve been doing a bunch of freelance work since moving and am continually amazed at the weird and diverse selections of web projects that I somehow manage to find. Most are pretty fun little projects, building something useful to somebody for something. A lot of these low hanging fruit are building xhtml/css templates, typically for WordPress.

I have a bunch of rules when it comes to these jobs. For example, I only hand over work once I’ve received money. I’d like to think most of them are equally reasonable. The latest addition to the list is use of the terms pixel perfect, especially if they are in bold.

It means nothing, because there is going to be somebody using WebTV, Seamonkey, Shiira or Maxthon (yes, those are all real web browsers) which will render some crazy thing differently that will never, ever be caught in any testing scenario ever.

Is it important to do thing the right way? ABSOLUTELY.

Is it important to test the rendering and graceful degradation of your execution in all modern browsers? OF COURSE.

Will there be some silly reason why you had to compromise? PROBABLY.
(our CMS strips out all span tags!)

Will it look the same in every browsers? Consult the internet:
http://www.dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/

There is no certification exam for web developers or designers, so judge us on the work we produce, how good we are to work with, and we’ll do the same.

If I included a line on my resume that I would only drink organic tea at precisely 10:20 every morning, would you hire me or think that I was difficult to work with?

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