[Webpro] Supporting web standards and winning bids

[listadmin]

Hi all

This is to send you some motivation   :)

Today my small enterprise won a bid, after an exhausting evaluation
period of three months, against heavy competition. Why? You won't
believe it... Because of producing standards compliant code! Yeah,
that's what they told me this morning at the phone. They must have
looked under the hood and run our websites through a validator.

Sometimes I was almost desperate to lose one bid after another to
competitors who don't care about standards or even browser testing.
I always received 'good advice' like 'Don't go for perfection,
people don't care and don't look under the hood.' Heh, they were
wrong   :)

So... keep up the effort, it pays in the long run   :)

Cheers

Mike

PS
Any similar - or contrary - experiences?