This guy is 100% right on. Have any of you seen the movie "Doomsday Gun"?
Its about a guy who builds a supergun for Saddam Hussein. To prove the
concept will work, he builds a 1/10 scale version first. And what happens?
The scale version works, and Saddam demands that the scale model be used as
a fully operational supergun, along of course, with the final huge version.
You show a client something that looks half good, and if you've got a sleazy
client, you're gonna have a hard sell on why it's gonna cost so much when
you whipped out this framework in 2 days. "Why can't we just use the
framework?". "Here, I'll pay ya fifty bucks for the framework, and my cousin
Zeke will finish it up..."
Now, in the movie, Gerald Bull built superguns. He didn't have a lot of
clients to choose from, so he got the sleasy client Saddam. These days, in
the light of massive dot-bombs, us CF folks can't exactly pick and choose
from hundreds of juicy projects. Often you get less than stellar clients.
I'd be wary about giving the client too much up front...
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Quarto-vonTivadar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 7:41 AM
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: Re: WireFrame Demo Online
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> Further there is a *real* issue with making things too easy to show the
> client, and that is that to many clients what they 'see' means that
> something is working, and if you did it fast then it must've been "easy".
> If
> you show them everything easily, then they are going to wonder (a) "why
> can't I have this done at the end of the week" and (b) "since I can have
> it
> at the end of the week", he thinks, "why are they charging me $75000 for
> it?
> I got a cousin who makes 'web pages' and I bet if I give him $500 he'll do
> it for me"
>
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