Be Better, Learn From Me
It’s daunting, being a web designer. One of the key daunting-points (I may even patent that expression because I think it’s quite good) is that you are expected to completely understand what a client wants out of their web design with sometimes very little communication and usually barely any turnaround time. Then, they wonder how comes you’ve got it not 100% right… Here are my tips for how to do a good service the first time round. Believe me, take heed or face the consequences… 1) You need all the information. See their face drop when you asked them yet another question about the colour of their hair restoration site’s homepage (yes, this is one I did recently…)? See them stare at you as though you just gave them some dog-gob soup and put a gun to their head, their fist clench? Doesn’t matter. You need as much input as possible at the very early stages. So be brave. Ask away. If you don’t you’ll only waste time re-doing things later… 2) Agree on a price. Or at least a price band, so that there’s no confusion later on. Website design is a tricky thing, and the more STYLE they want to add, the more it’s going to have to cost. Doesn’t matter that you are new to the game. You’re a business and that’s all that matters, end of story. 3) Don’t accept input from numerous different people: this can be an absolute killer. Work with ONE person only, otherwise you risk contradicting all the different opinions and then things definitely won’t look pretty…
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