Clients who just don’t get what you are doing are a pain in the *ss everywhere. If the business you are in gets more technical, more people will think they know something of it… and really have no clue.
This old thread has some quotes from webdesigners and their clients.
Some great examples:
client -
“I don’t care if it doesn’t work in netscape I want it”
me -
“uhh.. Yeah, no uses Netscape anyway.” ;x
client (2 weeks later) -
“It looks all broken!”
me -
“Huh? Nothing looks wrong on my end. ..blah
blah blah… What version IE are you using?”
client -
“Netscape”
client: “I can’t find the web site, have you loaded it up?”
me: “Yeah, it’s all loaded up, blah blah, are you putting in the right address?”
client: “yeah, I think so, is it www.***********.co.uk?”
Me: “yeah, that’s the one.”
client: “nope, still not coming up.”
Me: “that’s strange… hold on, where are you typing the address into?”
client: “the search box.”
Client: “Can you make the background constantly change colors? I want people to know that we are fun and exciting.”
Me: “People will think you are trying to give them a siezure.”
Client: “Look, just try it, and if we don’t like it, we can change it later.”
Me: “Well, this will really, really make it hard to design the rest of the site if the background color is constantly changing.”
Client: “Then make the rest of it change, too.”
Me: “………uhh, are you sure that’s what you want?”
Client: “Yes”
<two days later>
Client: “This looks like crap. Why did you make it like this?”
Me: “You asked me too.”
Client: “If you knew it was going to look like this, why did you even bother?”
Me: “Because I charge you by the hour.”
Let’s just say that now he’s a lot more picky about what random ideas he makes me carry out.
The basic idea: some people just have no clue what they are talking about….
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