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By: Emmy

Emmy — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 11:17:04 +0000

Handling clients is itself a horror story.
If one is in the business of dealing with clients then one can’t get away easily.

By: Maysa

Maysa — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:38:18 +0000

I think the clients are themselves confused about what they want and so in turn they make us confuse. The result is utter chaos and nothing more…..

By: Travis

Travis — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:19:18 +0000

We were working on a e-commerce site for a line of beauty products. The client demanded it be done in flash and wouldnt budge. This was the worst case of “a moving target” i have ever seen or heard of. A 3 week project ended up dragging on for well over 6 months. All was not lost however, because we ended up charging him roughly 10x the original estimate which he begrudgingly paid. I think the worst part was when he changed his entire product line about 75% through the project.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:59:43 +0000

I agreed to do a website for family member at a steep discount. Problem is, I had clients paying me the regular rate and expecting me to meet their deadlines.

Obviously I pushed the famiy member’s site back because people paying signficantly more money deserve to get significantly better service. Family member got mad, accused me to “screwing them” and decided to build the site themselves.

Later, when the site wasn’t working, they called me to ask for free help – which, to them, meant dictating HTML code over the phone. No thanks.

By: Stephen O'Connor

Stephen O'Connor — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 23:55:27 +0000

“Iâ€™ve just experienced the horror of having an external (print) designer, do the web template.”

I was once supplied a concept from a print design which came with bleed and trim marks.

The project was also based on a CMS so she wondered why we couldnt have all the features she had in her concept.

Frustration insued…

By: ERrwin Heiser

ERrwin Heiser — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 20:11:48 +0000

Pretty much the same story as Arik only the client used MS Frontpage on a gigantic XHTML table (on which I had used a few classes and a few lines of CSS to color it) and had gone through every cell in the table to “change the colors”. He was proud to announce that it had taken him several hours. LOL

By: Jonathan Holst

Jonathan Holst — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:17:20 +0000

I’ve just experienced the horror of having an external (print) designer, do the web template.

Seriously, she had it done pixel perfect, and would call me, if I had made something that had shifted 1-2px. I hate pixel perfectionism.

By: Mike Stickel

Mike Stickel — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:05:24 +0000

I had an interesting experience recently where I completed a small template and was then reprimanded â€” at least that’s what they client tried to do by laying blame â€” for not being a mind reader regarding the very vague changes that were subsequently requested.

By: Arik

Arik — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:32:19 +0000

I only have a quote and one quote only that I recieved from a client:

“I downloaded a copy of dreamweaver and I went and poked around with the website and I may have changed a few things that shouldn’t have been, could you fix it?”

This is why I raise my rates (occassionaly) with every client that takes it upon themselves to do the job they are paying me for.