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Originally Posted by Hitch
[...] Why the hell is it so hard to find a competent, reasonably attentive web person? [...]
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I was having pretty much the same conversation with a client recently.
And the risk of sounding like an old fart, or maybe some sort of programming snob, I put part of the problem down to so many web developers never having had a taste of "real" programming. Because it's all so high level, many of them seem to get it in their heads that it's fine to just throw up anything and let the client do all the testing (and complaining) - never mind that they may have exposed all the clients' (or the clients' clients) private data due to carelessness. It's lazy, but they (try to) get away with it because everything is so quick and easy to change online (no compilation and distribution issues to worry about). It looks good, at first, because they can get stuff out fast. It only looks bad later when all the problems arise, but by then it's possible to argue that the specifications weren't accurate (always a safe bet, because they almost never are accurate).
The counter argument is that, because web developers these days are a dime a dozen, and because so many potential clients have seen how "easy" it is to do Joomla or Wordpress or whatever, few are willing to pay the true price of having it done right.