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Client is not happy? Is it my fault?

Aug 13, 2010 11:20

Couple months ago a client wants her website to be redesign with more splashy landing page and up-to-date contents. She wants to add some cool interactive features. Took me a month to redesign and program the site. When the site is done, the client praised how beautiful the site looks and loving it. Weeks later, the client is not happy, she said ( Read more... )

Comments 5

tastee August 13 2010, 18:08:55 UTC

you could have a still graphic show up in lieu of the flash for those users.

top0098 August 13 2010, 20:36:49 UTC

Sometime it makes me wonder how does client survive during this Internet age? There is one time, the client review my flash animation. He said the animation looks great, but run very slow on my laptop, can you make it run faster and smoother? For god's sake, his laptop is like 10 years old, running Windows Me on Pentium 4!

tastee August 13 2010, 22:30:15 UTC

It is guaranteed that your client will have the shittiest computer

electragiselle August 14 2010, 06:12:01 UTC

If they had a decent computer they would probably be making their own website..

samuraiartguy August 18 2010, 18:50:32 UTC

Doomed.

When a client will not accept a technical limitation, and responds with a "just FIX it, Dammit" ... you're in a lose-lose scenario.

I do recall sneaking into a clients office and trashing their AOL 5 and IE 6 for up to date versions of IE and FireFox... suddenly I was a "genuis" that fixed their broken website.

* cringe *