On 7/31/06 5:41 AM, "Nick Fitzsimons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Three months in, the department head went on a 2 day course in > DreamWeaver, and on her return wanted to know why it had taken me so > long when it was "only a few pages". Shortly after they didn't renew my > contract, getting in a recent graphic design graduate (at a lower rate) > to finish it off. > > From what I heard, it never was finished. These days, I'm very careful > to explain in excruciating detail exactly what I'm doing and why; the > client may never read the reports, but it covers me somewhat against > idiocy like that. > > Cheers, > > Nick. I've had a few experiences like thatthe most memorable was when I was just starting out, and agreed to this insane gig doing a webzine for these two guys. It was three full Flash menus, along with a bunch of text pages in HTML and 9 articles a month. The guys couldn't understand why it took so long to code the updates to the site (there were between 4 and 9 ActionScript rollovers on each page, and up to 30 images to prep for each issue), and didn't want to pay me for what the job was actually worth. When I finally got sick of it (after a total of three months of haggling over the price of updates), I left the job, and they had a total of ONE issue after that before the webzine folded. They couldn't find anyone to do their updates for the rate I had initially agreed to (and they thought that was too expensiveif I told you what it was, you'd laugh your butts off). It's always amazing to me when I see that kind of ignorance. And at least once or twice, it's come from someone in the industryboth print and Web design (I do both). It makes me twitch sometimes. Cheers, Dani ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dani Nordin the zen kitchen Graphic and web design with a touch of green 1 Fitchburg Street, B160 Somerville, MA 02143 401.787.5178 mobile See a full portfolio and sign up for our monthly newsletterthoughts on design, life, food and other trivialitiesat http://www.tzk-design.com Read our notes from the zen kitchenweekly(ish) articles on design, the environment, and life as a business owner - at http://zenkitchen.blogspot.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
