I recently bid on a job at Elance. That guy was the only one who has 
even contacted me (I guess that’s progress). He hired someone else but since I have nothing better to do and I figure it’s good practice, I remade his site (on my server). I went and made sure it validated and then I got the brilliant idea to see if the other guy’s did.
My Result: Passed
His Result: 121 Errors, 3 warning(s)
Nice huh? Not to mention he made his page with tables and most of his errors are from all that inline styling. At least he could have put it in the css. Don’t use bloody tables for layout!. That is so obsolete, yet there he is with the paid job and here I am jacking around.
maybe you should email the dude that requested the job and tell him 😛
I sorta did. But I didn’t tell him to check his site in a validator 😛
well.. that sucks swamp water. wonder if he’d let you save a before/after of his site (minus any live linkage) for a resume sample of getting validating results in a rebuild?
Hang in there, people who value functioning sites are out there somewhere!
Cheers!
Yeah, bad enough to lose my bid but to lose it to an incompetent is really freaking annoying. I doubt I was under-bid either, they just simply have actually done jobs through Elance. Probably got in when the place first went live, because no one seems willing to hire a new startup even if I do good work.