After she remained uncommunicative for most of the weekend (after I sent her a request for more content), I set her up a skeletal site on the free plan offered by the domain name service provider and turned everything back over to her. I was done! Previously, I was acting as her company secretary (doing in-house tracking forms), provided a server and web hosting and was struggling to get adequate input from her to design her website. I felt I was being um… taken advantage of, with little thanks. It didn’t get better when she kept micromanaging me on everything I did – even insisting that she “felt much better” when I dogeared a page in my notebook for some notes I was taking on her project (when the notebook was devoted to her project in the first place) so I wouldn’t lose the page. This is the sort of person who would like to manage your every mouse click and physical movement and if you object or try to explain that there is a better way of doing things, she claims that you “just like conflict” or that you “don’t like to be questioned on anything”. (In other words, she quickly resorts to insults and put-downs). Not worth it! Not even for the “experience”. I doubt we’re still friends either!

I still have to laugh though at “everything except for the moving bicycle”
(in three days time, over a weekend, when I already had other plans – and all we had so far as a rough sketch and almost no real content – other than vague hints.)

Repeat for every possible location and measure throughout the site…
After a couple of weeks of this, I fired the client.

Yeah, no shit. So don’t do that.

I changed the colours to green.

Client “That doesn’t look good..”

umm this was suggested by one of my know it all clients- he also debated that my site should be completely visible within the fold and no one should have to scroll down on my site to see my services.

This same client asked for a site that scrolls about 1200 pixels down screen which is a lot of scrolling for someone who is against the scroll and if the red hot scrolling idea is such a fad why isn’t anyone using it again?

I was told today by a client that I make pretty sites but because those pretty sites don’t look like one of those “infomercial sites” than they don’t generate money.

he refereed to homestead the generic template site
I said not only is their site ugly but there templates are to, but he said well its 4.99 to start I said sweety nothing is 4.99 a month when it comes to web design.

I explained to him that a template made and used by the same people over and over again is not a comparison to my services, Ive had many clients from homestead which i refer to thim as the home rip off because clients get a site that my 5 year old could have designed better with yahoos page builder. but you live and learn.

I’m about to send this client packing to homestead if he doesn’t shape up. He will then appreciate a good designer. Sometimes it takes getting screwed over before a client will realize that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

and then she added…

FYI, change my body type to JUICY

I ditched her that same day. She still will not stop emailing me.

Client: ‘it’s got RAM, it’s got Hard Drive, it’s got Graphics Cards, Motherboard’
Me: ‘Fatherboard?’
Client: ‘Two!’

*sign