I got called in to do a little support today. Nothing too big, but any little bit hurts my soul. One of our clients has a web designer that was trying to modify the left nav in one of our templates.

It’s a pretty common task. It’s one of the reasons I put a div with the id of “leftNav” in there.

So.

Anyway.

Their web guy tried to make their own div for the navigational elements and pooched it. Really badly. And then sent off a whiny email about how we won’t help them with anything.

I can see screwing up. Everyone’s done it. Everyone’s made stupid mistakes that they’re just completely blind to. Sometimes you’re just too close to the code. And sometimes you just haven’t learned enough yet.

Just don’t try to pin your mistakes on someone else.