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															On 11/1/06, Liam McMurray <liam at elem.me.uk> wrote:

>
> During this process, a stumbling block has been the prevalence of
> table-based layout and deprecated code used in these sites. I have to
> recommend a complete site rebuild using CSS for presentation and
> layout as part of the update, because we just don't work like that
> round y'ere.

And that, surely, is your starting point. At the simplest level, if
the client isn't prepared to do things properly, it's not in your
interest to take the job.


> Obviously, this adds an additional cost to the pitch which I have to
> justify to the client.
>

Your justification need only be that the site has to be brought up to
modern standards for

(a) you to work on it, and
(b) the client to expect any return from it in future

That additional cost is not so much a cost you have to justify, but a
value-add that the client needs to think about investing in their
business.

G