February 2nd, 2010
In my time as a Cincinnati based website designer, I would have to say about 40% of my clients are either looking for a re-design of an existing website, or for me to fix what another company, well… didn’t do so good.
Because of that last set of folks, I have been privy to a few proposals from other local website design companies, mostly because they want me to quote based on what the original website was supposed to contain.
It doesn’t happen often, but I have definitely been shocked by a few of the “features” some companies include and charge for. You wouldn’t believe the “bells and whistles” people don’t know they are paying for! Read the rest of this entry »
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January 11th, 2010
Lets face it, there's a lot of ugly websites out there. The Oatmeal published one of my favorite articles about the life of a web designer which can be found here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell. There is a fine balance between doing what you know is best as a professional web designer and doing what your client wants in order to please them.
Most of the time you can come to a happy medium, but sometimes you just have to give in and do what the client's wallet wants or risk not getting paid for your work. I definitely have several websites I have completed that I feel are not worthy of my portfolio because my client butchered a really good design with crazy web crap. So here's a fun little list of the top 10 things I HATE to put in a website. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 11th, 2010
Most of my clients have a pretty good grip on their business, as well as how and to what extent a website will help their business. However, with the down economy, I do get the occasional client who calls me four days after their website goes live, and says something to the effect of:
“Hi, my website has been live for four days, why am I not having to replace my front door because people are beating it down wanting to buy my product? Why have I not had to install six additional phone lines to accommodate all of my new business from the website? Where are all of my new customers? I thought my new website would solve all of my problems!” Read the rest of this entry »
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