Just tell the client that you will do your job and he can do his own job.....
I did that the other day, and surprisingly wasn’t fired.
To be honest, I was quite tactful and constructive in how I put the point across, but I asked the client to trust my professional knowledge and experience, and if anything she was rather impressed.
I think it is important for us to remind clients that we are professionals and know what we are talking about (mostly).
We can blame that sell web design software for the public misconception that building a valuable web site/blog/presence/ application/anything is easy and inexpensive. After all, people will be more likely to buy a copy ...
As a result, many people believe that what we do is easy, ( "isnt it just like writing a Word document?" ), does not require any knowledge other than how to run a program, and worse yet, they believe they are also experts in the field because they "use the web".
They tend to assume their personal experience and opinion -- which is, um, personal -- is the same thing as how things should be done! Oh the arrogance! *wink*.
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