Dumb Clients
You know that you have a dumb client when you have a person who should be smarter asking to do something that is less smart and some one is working for them who should know better. Apparently this person wants to put a link from their .org domain name to their .com domain which should mirror the .org. In fact, the .com one wasn’t even updated because everyone pointed to the .org. But it’s like putting a link on yahoo.com to point to yahoo.org.
Stupid Person 1 is pushing for this to happen. It makes that person look smarter. Stupid Person 2 should know better.
I will be happy to say good bye to this project. In all fairness, I did a lousy job of hand holding the client through this process and my ambitions for this project were perhaps too high. I guess after putting in an initial round of allnighters on this project and getting very little appreciation for that work, I lost my faith on that project. The lesson I’ve learned from this is that you should never do any work for free. People just don’t value and respect the work that you do and you have no incentive to put up with their shit if things go rocky. Pride in your work, I hear some of you say, but pride doesn’t pay the rent.
I think I know now why web designers are paid so much. It’s because there is a populace out there that doesn’t quite get it and thinks that websites just spring up magically online. The fall out of an insta-click lifestyle is that sometimes people don’t quite have the patience to do something properly - insta-online, insta-strategies, insta-community.
Hey that’s an easy solution - just point forward the IP to the .org one - but I guess your point.
The sites I’m currently working on for clients are taking ages, but in the end they’ll look amazing…
The Man Himself
Yah…I know that’s the solution. But that’s part of the beef that I’ve had about this project all along. They’ve been willing to pay this guy money when all he did was do up a few graphics, while I slaved away on in the initial stages trying to execute a sensible online strategy.
Now the guy woke me up in the morning to ask me to do this particular thing. Why the hell did he NOT suggest that to the person that was telling him these things? That was part of the irritation. Web strategy is not just about making pretty graphics or about simply uploading info!
Haha, sounds like I was the other guy!