I’m not against anyone learning new things. I think everyone should. But when you are a professional or small business, and you need a web site, think twice before you roll up your sleeves and attempt to do it yourself.

Our clients run the gamut from hard core geeks who maintain their own sites without incident once we hand them the keys to Internet neophytes who have us add every bit of new content. The secret is to know when you don’t know. If you haven’t a clue about web design, are colorblind, have no sense of style, no inkling about typography and the kind of messages that it and colors can send, if you think that PHP, HTML, CSS and SEO are all just so much alphabet soup, then think before you leap into web design. You might be able to save a few bucks in the beginning, but if you are counting on your shiny new web site to bring you business or income, then that could be a very costly mistake. Penny-wise and pound-foolish, anyone?

Come on now. You take a lot of pride in your plugin, don’t you? Take the same pride in the code that it generates. I take pride in my web design. I want my sites to validate as to both CSS and HTML. But your silly little plugin is riddled with errors and, quite frankly, sloppy CSS. Why just look here (this is just a sample; your plugin actually generated over 50 CSS errors!):

And just so you don’t think I’m picking on just one plugin, here’s more:

Bottom line here? If you can’t be bothered to create solid CSS, how can I trust your code?