Quote from: wendy at Jan 10, 2006, 12:46 PM
Now you’ve seen one 
Yes I have ;P
You learn every day that goes by. Remember I am french, even if I manage to write some decent english I lack some cultural references, first names are among those...
Anyway, I was not meaning to be rude or upset you, sorry
Ehmm... Time to change my username I guess, how about djamoer? Sounds hard isn’t it?
I think it might sounds better, let me see... I don’t think I can change my username. Oh well, anyway.
Please, don’t !
Or rather, only if you feel others making the same mistake will bother you in the long run.
So guys, if you guys have something about MODx that you think I can be part of, please feel free to drop me an email or private message. I might be off for some time, maybe this coming summer, because I’m moving back to my lovely country Indonesia. I’m planing to open up a real consultant company in there, and if I really do concentrate on web design, instead of ERP/CRM provider, then I will take MODx and start hiring an in house programmer to improve the core code, and giving it back to the community. So for now, don’t left me behind knowing nothing
Well for starters, we’ll have the marketing IM conference set up soon, and since you have ideas you’ll be part of that. One thing that has struck me in this community is talent and dedication rarely gets un-noticed. As I said, I had noticed your post from the beginning and I see I am not the only one.
Btw, don’t expect too much of it, because the web design market in Indonesia is not that good, considering a lot of competitor out there.
Funny you’d say that, because in France there are many competitors out there. I guess most countries suffer the same cluttered markets. But let me tell you one thing : there is room for more modern competitors out there.
For instance web standards are poorly understood by french web agencies, and CMS are vastly underused (most of my competitors charge by the pages, ah ah, or charge absolutely outrageous prices for average quality output, or low price but ugly standard looking websites...). Not to mention the few who use CMS use old-fashioned ones such as SPIP or Typo3. Those are heavy, cluttered or/and standard non-compliant systems but represent 95% of the market.
I don’t know about Indonesia, but in France that’s the way it is. If you present clients with alternatives, you start having an audience (it takes some convincing, let’s not be naive).
They charge a really2 low price, which most company don’t really care whether the result will looks good or not for their own company’s website. If I suceed in educating the market about the important of web design, then the plan will continue, if not, I’ll look for another way.
Just what I was saying. You are either faced with competitors that charge a lot and have locked big accounts, or low-price competitors that produce look-alike websites that are not even HTML 4 compliant... (most don’t have a doctype to begin with...). As you say, we educate the market. With applications such as MODx, we might just get through to them
I am not saying it’s easy, but it’s starting to pay off as far as I am concerned.
Anyway, I am struck by the HUGE gap between a country like the US and a country like mine, web-wise.
I have been somewhat of a voice
in the french community of webdesigners and webmasters, annoying to some (even got threatenned) and respected by others.
Anyway, I hope you hang in there !
There are things to be done for our respective countries, web-wise...
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