Design considerations

[jollyhumper]

Reminds me of this electrician who wanted a webpage for nothing.
It was just my hobby, right?

So, he would gladly charge me 100$ an hour to fix something at my house, but he wanted me to build him a webpage for a six-pack of beer or something.

I've stopped doing stuff like this, it just frustrates the hell out of me.
As you say, no matter how precise you do it to fulfill their wishes, they always think it should be able to do other stuff never mentioned when it's done.

I'm to old for this shit :-p

Jolly

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by jollyhumper

Reminds me of this electrician who wanted a webpage for nothing.
It was just my hobby, right?

So, he would gladly charge me 100$ an hour to fix something at my house, but he wanted me to build him a webpage for a six-pack of beer or something.

I did a website for my roofer in exchange for $600 off the roof price, That one worked out ok.

Other than that I avoid building out sites for anybody. Too many freebies being advertised so people think the price of a site is a lot lower than it should be.


edited in: just went to look at the site I built out for him and there is some chinese site in place. Looks like he let the domain drop and it got picked up. That sucks. Went to his FTP and it is still active and my code is still out there. Not sure what is up with that.


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[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by sarettah

I did a website for my roofer in exchange for $600 off the roof price, That one worked out ok.

Other than that I avoid building out sites for anybody...

I did one for my contractor who we became good friends with while he was working on our house (he did A LOT of work at the old house). He ended up walking off the job for no reason one day & a couple weeks later, his new webguy emailed & asked me to transfer the domain over to him because I put everything in my name & he was still using it on all his ads & whatnot. So I said no, told him to call my lawyer & put up a page about how he fucked us & since we were friends, we didn't have a contract, so this was the only way I could get back at him.

I'll still do them for people - last one was a personal website for my chiro - but I still put them all in my name since no one's ever asked me to put it in theirs