February 2012
7 posts
clientsfromhell:
Client: Why have you taken my website down? I demand you put it back immediately!
Me: You didn’t pay your January invoice, and although I explained very clearly the consequences of that non-payment, you still refused, so the website is now offline.
Client: But it’s February now, so put it back online at once.
Me: Well, you are refusing to pay the February invoice too, so I’m...
“I will be out of the office on Monday, February 20th. Watch the Irish take on...”
– Colleague’s out-of-office reply. File this under “Always be closing.”
An Atari reference for a Monday afternoon
…I hear you, but at the same time, as someone who is struggling to be able to code my own stuff, and not flop around like a metaphorical flounder on the beach, I can see how this is how someone eventually learns good habits.
The problem is that you leave a trail of bad sites in your wake.
I don’t want people to know about my first few years of designs. I’d like to bury them in the...
How you can tell if an idea is "right."
Have a story to tell.
The story becomes the theme, the backbone of the project.
If you don’t define the story at the beginning of the project, you have nothing to which to relate all of the bazillions of tiny questions that arise in the course of creating something.
“What color should it be?”
“How big?”
“What’s the right font?”
All of these...
clientsfromhell:
Me: The internet isn’t working - but don’t worry, we’ve called to get it sorted and they said it should be up in the next ten minutes.
Client: We’ll just e-mail in Outlook then.
Me: That’ll be down too.
Client: Fine! It’s unprofessional, but we’ll use Facebook.
Me: Do you understand what the internet is?
