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Back In School: Days 3, 4, & 5

If I was to tell you about my 3 days listening to someone talk about tax it'd amount to the most boring post ever, and Rodent Woman was really quiet so I have nothing even to laugh about.

During the course of... the course... I was asked to have a look at someone's website, and I did. I left out any subjective chat on 'the look' and tried to explain some of the objective faults in the design (no DOCTYPE, invalid markup, bloated markup, confusing interface etc) in the process I discovered that about half of the people I was talking to thought a web page was something you typed into MS Word and then 'Saved As'. To cut a long story short my company is going to be a consultancy type thing, as well as design, if I can even prevent people wasting money that'll be a good thing.

(I also had an interesting time trying to explain that I used to work for BlackStar, who no-one had heard of, which made me think how hard Sendit's brand may find things growing without any roots.)

The course is dominated by talk of Microsoft applications, now I'm not some rabid anti-m$ geek or anything but if you're starting up a business and need to cut costs isn't it at least sensible to consider something like Open Office which is free? I use it, it's great, works with all the MS formats and does all the things you'd expect, mostly in the way you'd expect too.

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