Designing for the Future, and the Training Gap
Added on Friday 29 Aug 2003
Ian Lloyd has been getting a lot of well-deserved attention for his Personal Rant about Standards and Training at Mezzoblue. He asks the question,
"How do you encourage unenthusiastic developers/mark-up authors to adopt forward-thinking web development methods?"
He answers his own question by suggesting that what is needed is more training - although he doesn't sound to convinced about what is currently on offer in the training department,
"Enforced training is not always gratefully accepted though (unless it involves a trip abroad and a nice expense tab, of course) and often the training is hideously outdated. The techniques described in Zeldman's, King's and other people's books are not taught in any residential training that I have ever seen. The latter are still stuck in the old school "Let's give 'em <font> tags and nested <table>s" approaches."