It is 2012...

...and you are still using JavaScript? I sure do hope you guys don't do this.

I make most of my money doing freelance web work.  80% of the actual work is fixing Javascript or PHP code.  Browser-supported CSS can emulate simple JS tricks.  AJAX is a different beast altogether, and normal users have gotten used to it via Facebook.  Find a way to get rid of the J in AJAX and JS will die a slow, abandonware-style death.  HTML5 and CSS3 are ready to replace Flash, so JS is next on the chopping block.

When I make websites from scratch, it's all about getting paid.  Users don't pay me, the clients do.  If they want some obnoxious popups or client-side input validation, that's what they get.  To explain why anything they want is a bad idea evokes a response similar to putting on a magic show for my cats - they don't give a fuck.  Just throw up a Wordpress site with a nice template, tweak it for a few hours, and then wash your hands of the project.