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2. When simple updates go partially undone for the same amount of time.
3. When simple updates are repeatedly completed with errors (such as the requested adjustment completed on the wrong page) or significant portions of the update overlooked and left out.
What other signals are you familiar with?
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[edited by: stuntdubl at 11:37 am (utc) on July 19, 2004]
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nice offer....
better posted in the Commercial Exchange forum maybe.... logical place!
Might contact you - just resigned my full time job a two hour round-trip commute away....
I agree ...
perhaps the mods will move it ...
no worries ... this thread was inspired by the similar one named "You know you should "fire" your client when ..."
Thanks to all
: )
After 6 months they fail to make you a monthly profit.
unless you're paying for combined design + marketing/SEO work.
The web designer also isn't responsible (nor is the SEO) for all the other ways that a site needs to be promoted unless they're being paid for it - and that's not generally a design-related discipline.
Fire the web designer if they keep making HTML errors that cause problems, if they read a couple of articles and decide to "help" the SEO out by keyword stuffing all over the place, if they're unresponsive and uncommunicative, if they don't do updates within a reasonable amount of time -and if you just plain don't like them.
Unfortunately, a lot of people have a site designed and think that the designer is totally responsible for everything that goes into making it profitable. That isn't so unless that's what was mutually agreed to and it's being paid for. Otherwise, beyond it being designed and functional the rest is up to the site owner.
3% of the likely target audience will have problems in seeing the web pages because of cross-browser non-compatibility, or
the website is in FRAMES, or
web pages that a visitor might want to print are unprintable, or
links don't work as they should, or
stacks of typos, or ...
I could go on, but
Believe it or not, you have a right to demand and expect the same standards as you would with any other service industry.
(And, equally, they have the right to expect the same level of professionalism from you - such as copy, images and payment delivered when agreed. But that's another thread!)
That has to be the funniest thing I've read in a while. I assume that has happened to you?
While I really wanted to pitch a hissy-fit, I didn't. I have to deal with the folks in this very small net community here, and while my last name (due to marriage) is one of the "oldies but goodies" here, so is his. AND he's one of my husband's second cousins *sigh*. So I just suggested that there were other better more up-front ways of doing same.... I think she got the point....
