Tag: clients

Disgusted !

I had to disable certain aspects of a website I created for a client. I have been waiting for 2 months for the final payment. I talked to a few other people in my business and they said it was common practice to do this but they usually pull the entire site not just disable a few links. I really tried to be as patient as possible but got nothing but the runaround from these guys.All my other clients have been completely businesslike and totally dreamy.

More Work Stuff

I posted that poor me I’m being paid for such an easy job,boo hoo post a little too soon.

It was easy because I didn’t have to name or create the database or anything but I did have to spend hours looking for the right plugins and stuff.I’m working with WP 2.2 and a lot of plugins don’t work on this new WordPress

Then I used a theme whose png files must not have been compressed properly or something because they were really visible in IE and didn’t blend at all.So I made psds in Adobe ImageReady then converted them to gif or jpg in Photofiltre and they look better.

you idiot it was ie 6!!! it doesn’t support png files and you knew that and yet you still blathered.

This “it’s too easy” stuff comes from my earlier uphill climb web experience working with insanely unfriendly environments like AngelFire,Purehost and Myspace all of which disallow mostly everything fun.

A friend suggested that it’s not easy for them to do it which is why they pay someone to do it for them.I guess it’s like math for me,code for them makes their eyes glaze over.

Also: (shhh!) I think this might be a school project!(shh!)

Any “easy” work I do get is always balanced out by the really hard jobs like my ongoing project for an online jewelry store.The CMS is custom built by me using that edit in place Ajax doodad.It turned out that my other really easy CMS wasn’t easy enough. But now it’s just like Flickr and I am a badass!

Yay(I’m getting paid)

I’m actually going to get paid for my latest web design job! Ok, I have gotten paid for other jobs,don’t worry. It’s just that it wasn’t that much. If you go to the portfolio section of mccormicky.comyou’ll see a list and thumbnails of the sites I have totally handed off(with the exception of the simran/timeless/lineska site which seems to never want to get done)
I am designing a few sites for free,too.

My last and sort of current client posted an ad stating webdesign would be paid for with “store credit”. I needed portfolio bolstering but I really hated this idea…I would have to had to go into to the city to take advantage of the deal and the products were spoilable, i.e: food and drink,
not something that I could place much value on.The other thing was the bar environment put me off.I’m glad to say my days of sitting on a barstool are over.And I do not like Midtown where the lounge is located.

So I ventured the idea that they could pay me money instead.They were so happy with the site and the gallery I set up for photos of their parties & their regulars(with comments and photo hits and an admin section,thanks Phormer!) that they said yes right away.They doubled what I timidly asked for.I was quite shocked. I’d figured they were going to balk at the idea of paying me I never dreamed they’d actually be so pleased they’d cut me a check.

The gallery is what sold them,I’m sure.I talk almost daily with the bar manager (who keeps breaking the gallery by uploading pics that are too big 🙁 ), and he is a huge fan of myspace.So he got the comment idea right away.The cool thing about Phormer is not only can you comment a photo but the comments can be replied to by the administrator.So each pic can have it’s own threaded discussion! It’s a very cool thing, this Phormer gallery.

I am starting to think this whole freelancer thing might just work.