“Since Covid, aren’t we all bedroom workers to a greater or lesser extent?”
If you’ve read this column over the past year or so, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I just spend all my time playing with phones, home automation and various gadgets. But if you cast your eyes over to the right for a moment, you’ll notice that underneath my profile picture it says that my day job is running a web agency. It’s something that I’ve been doing since the mid-1990s, when the web first became a thing.
Actually, “web agency” paints a bit of a misleading picture, because it implies that my company just creates websites. And while yes, we do build websites, much more of our time these days is spent creating and managing web-enabled business tools. I’ll talk more about those further down the column, but let’s stick with websites for now.
The first thing that I want to dive into here is the subject of coding standards and website accessibility; they’re much more important than many people think, and they mean a lot to me. You see there are many thousands of companies out there that can build you a nice new website, from the big-budget agencies in their shiny ivory towers through to medium-sized companies such as my own CST Group, right down to the one-man-band developers working out of their bedrooms, possibly on a part-time basis in between studying or holding down a full-time job elsewhere.
That’s not to poo-poo the bedroom agency girls and boys. Many of
