The real life examples were good, but any serious e-commerce site is databse driven and you'll only be modifying a single layout template per screen modification, not 97 individual pages!!

I also am for standards and CSS, but I think this article compared 2 extremes which we all know will prove a dramatic difference between the 2 methods being evaluated.

Also, I don't think you can get any contractor to do ANY updates for as little as $5.60 The author didn't take into account any overhead costs of explaining layout requirements to a contractor. I highly doubt you can get any contractor to do any work for less than a half-hour's charge, even if it's only a 5 or 10 minute update. There's always overhead.

I would like to see this article re-done without such extreme sides taken and more realistic costs for development. Like I said, I'm all for standards but I bet things can be done using CSS for around 35% LESS than straight HTML and NOT the insane amount less than this article presented.

- Kurt