Dustpan and Brush please. Another Cowboy Web Designer To Clean up After
Forgive me for sounding like a stuck record, but yet again I have to write about another con artist who has the nerve to hide behind the Web Designer label!!!
This time the client I saw was a budding photographer who wants to go places with his venture. Some individual contacted him and offered to do his website for him. When my customer asked to meet him and discuss layouts and content, he refused point-blank and said that they did not have to meet.
He developed one web page in a weekend and asked for £50 upfront, which is probably fair enough as this would probably be to cover the domain name and hosting, etc.
But, although my client said that he liked the page/well done and lets get this show on the road, this designer proceeded to keep designing his page, asking for more money in the process, making my client feel bad as he had sacrificed an entire weekend putting this page together.
I was told all of this by my now-at-his-wits-end customer and having a vivid imagination, I could just imagine this faceless person sitting in front of his second-hand PC in his bedroom, squeezing my client like a sponge and lots of bank notes coming out of him.
I think the final nail in the coffin was the fact that he wanted to charge to upload the web pages when they were done, but disassociation hasn't been easy judging by the tone of my now customer's emails, nicknaming the guy "awkward" before his name: "Awkward Fred says this", "Awkward Fred says that", "Awkward Fred is being awkward".
You hear about these clowns (and yes I write about them, which doesn't help) and it makes me wonder how anyone can trust anybody who uses the title "Web Designer" on their business cards. The online world is a vast one with over 2 billion pages online (and counting) and despite it being used to pay your bills, advertise your business, talk to 15 year olds about your favourite pop star, the average business person still likes to know who they are dealing with. They want to meet you to discuss ideas, content, what they want to achieve from having a website and to basically see if you are what you say you are.
Can I suggest that any other 'Web-Designer(who is really a big money leech that I have not as yet had the displeasure to meet)' use the title that is more appropriate to them: it begins with 'N' and ends in 'UMB NUTS'.
I'll get off my soap box now (until the next time one of these little sods bug me again anyway).
This time the client I saw was a budding photographer who wants to go places with his venture. Some individual contacted him and offered to do his website for him. When my customer asked to meet him and discuss layouts and content, he refused point-blank and said that they did not have to meet.
He developed one web page in a weekend and asked for £50 upfront, which is probably fair enough as this would probably be to cover the domain name and hosting, etc.
But, although my client said that he liked the page/well done and lets get this show on the road, this designer proceeded to keep designing his page, asking for more money in the process, making my client feel bad as he had sacrificed an entire weekend putting this page together.
I was told all of this by my now-at-his-wits-end customer and having a vivid imagination, I could just imagine this faceless person sitting in front of his second-hand PC in his bedroom, squeezing my client like a sponge and lots of bank notes coming out of him.
I think the final nail in the coffin was the fact that he wanted to charge to upload the web pages when they were done, but disassociation hasn't been easy judging by the tone of my now customer's emails, nicknaming the guy "awkward" before his name: "Awkward Fred says this", "Awkward Fred says that", "Awkward Fred is being awkward".
You hear about these clowns (and yes I write about them, which doesn't help) and it makes me wonder how anyone can trust anybody who uses the title "Web Designer" on their business cards. The online world is a vast one with over 2 billion pages online (and counting) and despite it being used to pay your bills, advertise your business, talk to 15 year olds about your favourite pop star, the average business person still likes to know who they are dealing with. They want to meet you to discuss ideas, content, what they want to achieve from having a website and to basically see if you are what you say you are.
Can I suggest that any other 'Web-Designer(who is really a big money leech that I have not as yet had the displeasure to meet)' use the title that is more appropriate to them: it begins with 'N' and ends in 'UMB NUTS'.
I'll get off my soap box now (until the next time one of these little sods bug me again anyway).
