"here are some sites i like" she says
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- persona_non_grata0
wow wonder where her business will be in a year
either made of money or http://www.sadtrombone.com/
- d_rek0
kill fee/kill her
- d_rek0
Also, it's nice to see that you completely disregarded most of the feedback we gave you.
- erk? i did a lot of itbigtrickagain
- oh i see. you didn't read my comments on some of the things.bigtrickagain
- Honesty: I didn't read your comments regarding some thingsd_rek
- maikel0
A) You do the job, and you charge accordingly
B) You tell her to fuck off- I'm just hoping you have signed T&C to do B without losing money.
- don't wear a c on your d and j all over her b'sMHDC
- awesomepersona_non_grata
- jamble0
Change it = more invoices.
- flashbender0
Explain to her that she did sign off on the design - provide proof if necessary (and hopefully you have some).
Then tell her you'll be more than happy to explore different ideas (or energies as she puts it) for the site, but this will incur additional costs.
Be happy because you'll get more money.
If she does not wish to pay additional money for additional work, get paid for what you have done and terminate the relationship.
- ckentish0
your rounded corners look a little weird
- ukit0
- i hope it doesn't become as bad as thisbigtrickagain
- < sadly... so trueOSFA
- My god, that's amazing.DoTheMacarena
- hans_glib0
maybe she saw the original thread and took some of the comments to heart
- maybe she glibly took the advice of idiots to heartbigtrickagain
- noneck0
I hate this. I feel sorry for you.
Hopefully you got a deposit and have a decent agreement in place: you may need to fall back on them soon.
Try looking for themes in the sites she sent you, what's the difference between those sites and the one you're working on? Sometimes you can address her anxiety with some tweaks to the existing site design.
I've also worked on sites where 3/4 of the way into it, I decided I didn't like the "energy" of the site. I spoke to the client, and then took it back to the design phase where I designed something three times better, and proceeded really quickly after that.
Sometimes you need to do things like that. It's your name on that work, try to make sure you're proud of it.
- isakosmo0
i hear ya. its the story of my life at the moment and its the reason why my resignation is imminent. they approve, you carry the design across posterrs/flyers/tickets, then they say also, can you change the colours and maybe the photo? IM OUTA HERE
- noneck0
Also, these big changes shouldn't be a problem if you're billing hourly. If you're billing on a project basis, you should have laid out how the project will flow, what phases it will go through.
If you just said "Website - $XXXX", you're sunk. In that case, learn for next time and get back to work on designing a site with a better "energy".
- ukit0
What are some of the sites she likes anyway? Is there some kind of logical connection that can be drawn with the existing site that might tell you how to make her happy by tweaking a couple things? Or is it just completely random unhelpful shit?
- ifeltdave0
I don't like it, you should probably change the design.
- orrinward0
With the rounded corners you should do them in CSS rather than as a png, they'll look sharper.
- this is bollocksckentish
- And yet ie6 will murder both methodssneakybadger
- Yeah, stick to GIFs with the bkg matte matched to the site background. Or nob of ie6 and do PNGskushman
- bigtrickagain0
welp, i'm headed over there now. wish me luck.
- BaskerviIle0
- can you even be timelined if it's already on the same page? :-)Not_Just_Another
- pillhead0
As long as she in willing to pay you for the redesign take the money.