Suz wrote:
> Furthermore, not that the average client would care, but if I turn to
> something I've designed and see something that's been done to it
> differently than the way I would have done it myself, it's like
> someone has
> stabbed me in the heart with a knife. It takes the joy out of having done
> the work.
Yeah, I try to get all my clients to think that they want "me" doing the
changes. I'm not sure how I do it, it just seems to work out that way. I
*have* had a few clients go in and make changes themselves...and end up
flubbing something in the "cross browser compatibility" department. When I
show them their flub in the "other" browser, they quickly realize that I'm a
trusted source (and maybe they should just keep their hands out of the
works). For clients who need to do regular updating of text in pages, I
create a db driven form and template system so they can edit the text
without frying the page. It removes the webmaster bottlekneck for them and
let's me concentrate on things other than tinkering with their text.
I agree with Suz that when a client goes in and starts hacking up your work
it can be a real slap in the face, even if completely unintended. Recently,
I had an entire site get pulled down, for various reasons. It really bites
when a whole chunk of work suddenly isn't available live, at it's domain,
and the only way to view it is from a portfolio on my (forthcoming - will
get done if the referrals dry up ;) promo site.
Track one on the "Webmeister Blues": Ever since that web site left me...
Jack
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