Yeah, you got it done, and the client is happy, but for some reason you are not all that proud.
For me, its www.wzbathebay.com/
I must have gone through 7 designs for them to agree on this one. I built out everything, and after handing it over to the client, and they were able to make their changes. They put those flashing/blinking/rotating album cover images on the homepage, and made the link color orange. I find it to be very annoying, and hard on the eyes.
But they liked the site, and thats the end of that
For me, its www.wzbathebay.com/
I must have gone through 7 designs for them to agree on this one. I built out everything, and after handing it over to the client, and they were able to make their changes. They put those flashing/blinking/rotating album cover images on the homepage, and made the link color orange. I find it to be very annoying, and hard on the eyes.
But they liked the site, and thats the end of that
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It would be easier to tell you the ones I am proud of.
I am truely amazed at how bad the taste of so many people are.
It took us 2 years to break one client of having "click here" on every single link.
I have one client that is obsessed (not just likes it, is obsessed) with purple. And her logo is the Libra sign. She wants it used for every bullet on the site. So it is basically a purple site (very purple) with libra signs everywhere. Neither of these things have anything to do with her business. Oh, and since most of her clients are on the older side, the font is all 12 to 14pt. That ain't for headers folks, that is the paragraph font size.
There is the client that insists on designing everything herself, but following no basic rules of web design.
I do one non-profit site a year as a freebie. People think I am generous. You would not believe how happy these people are to get a professional web site for free. They never fight on any design issues. They say thank you for everything. They respond to emails practically immediately and they always take your calls. I am being generous...to my sanity. -
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Youre lucky that people are so happy for a site for free. The company I used to work for had similar deals, some were great to deal with and were timely, others thought they ran the business, made demands and then took a long time to get back. It showed me that paying or not, some clients can be a struggle.
I know "click here" is a bad thing, but sometimes people just dont understand when something is a link, and its those few that are going to keep "click here" alive.
The few marketing companies Ive built sites for, NEED to design the site themselves, and while the layouts are pretty, they are kind of annoying to navigate, like non-standard names for sections (ex: portfolio page being titled "visual") and even more messy to build...for they want it their way, no matter how confusing it can be.
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here's mine.
www.jbart.com
I've been *begging* him to let me redesign his site (I was hired to 'just maintain it') If you look at his code, the previous designer used... Dreamweaver? I'm not sure. DEFINITELY didn't handcode it herself and I suspect she WYSIWYG'ed the whole thing.
so every time I go in to make an update it's like walking into a garbage house and being asked to just do the dishes... -
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It sure is begging for a redesign, for it currently has a most-outdated layout circe 1998. By the way, I looked in the code, and www.carinadesign.com doesnt work anymore.
Why does he not want a redesign? Doesnt want to pay for it?
I use Dreamweaver, so I dont think using that is all that bad. I started out handcoding, and then made the change to Dreamweaver in 2003.
If youre really embaressed about it, you can remove the link to you on the bottom.
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