A big group hug for SEO people too today.

Still, I’m seeing a bit nowdays that unless someone has that skillset as a PHP programmer, at least, they’re finding it difficult to get work. Nobody with a decent application to build wants it just trashed with break tags, invalid junk and unmaintainable practices. So there’s hope at least.

I think its about caring, too. Some of what attracts a certain type to programming is perhaps feel distanced from the “real site” or “real application interface”. They like for loops, abstractions and cunningly thought out algorithmic finesse. Although that may be an unfair generalisation.

I guess I sit somewhere in the mishmash of generalist with specialised interest areas… I hope.

Anyway, I love it when my php integrates almost seamlessly with the front end thanks to well thought out and semantic html/css. I think both sides lose out when they don’t know or care to know enough about the other.

God help ‘em we need the blighters to make us look good with functionality, don’t get me wrong. But nearly every instance where the subject comes to the table there’s almost a mocking of HTML / CSS.

Everyone says, yeh we know how to write HTML and CSS. That’s easy. Anyone can chump that together. “We” write backend mysterious magic… ha ha.

So, anyone reading this, big hug day for us under appreciated tree hugging standardistas ay…

We are the ones who want something that does a little more than “just work”. Mmm quality.