Pitfalls of Working with Your Client’s Written Content

One of the challenges of being a web designer is dealing with other people’s babies.

Sometimes a single client meeting, and a Google search is all it takes before you are tasked with creating a new design to wrap that baby in.

And most of us get pretty good at it. We take a look at their current design material, what the competition is doing and we’re off.

But coming up with written content is a whole other matter.

Content can be a thorn in a designer’s side. The main reasons poorly written client content makes its way into a project are a lack of: time, skill, backbone, expertise, and budget. Let’s take a closer look at these issues. Continue Reading