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Phillipe Calmet
December 18th, 2007
Hehehe… the sad thing is that sometimes happens
Jon
December 18th, 2007
Very common. Very, very common.
Michael Dick
December 18th, 2007
So true…except I don’t ask myself if it’s a prank call, I ask myself if this client has any common intelligence.
Keep them coming! Love these.
Polly
December 18th, 2007
ARRRG!! This happened to me last week!
Client says: “just come up with a generic mark and when we think of the business name, we will just add it in there later.”
(insert sound of my head hitting my desk over and over again)
Marcin
December 18th, 2007
Man, I had a similar thing happen at work today.
Just finished a massive site redesign (by myself :\ ). We’re about to launch. Bosses (through a third party) tell me that they don’t like two banners.
Ok cool, what don’t you like about them? Uhh. well. Ok, what would you like them to look like. Uhh well. Would you like a solid colour background? Uhh hmm well. Would you like this.. Uhh umm no.
Then the third party starts micromanaging the look of the new banners. Can you remove the button. Can you change the colour of the text. Can you put a background in. Can you do this. Can you do that.
In the end it the two new banners ended up looking like their old banners. AND THEY STILL DIDN’T LIKE IT!
#$%@..
Man, you freelancers have it good. At least you can tell you clients to go get.. yeah.
Anyways,
- Marcin
Rene
December 18th, 2007
pouhahahaha…. so funny those comics
…and so true all the time
Jason
December 18th, 2007
“Man, you freelancers have it good. At least you can tell you clients to go get.. yeah.” - Marcin
Marcin, I do this at my current full-time job, and yet I am still surprised I am still working there.
But I do understand the situation, as I have experienced this both in my full-time job as well as with freelancing I do on the side. Sometimes I even preparing a couple template examples ahead of time, to give them enough to choose to build from. You just got to set in place a time where they will sign off on the design to move on to more important work, so you don’t get delayed by them being “not sure they like it”.
Harry Roberts
December 18th, 2007
I have a client at the moment who is exactly like that. They have no set business plan and as a result don’t know what services they want to offer, and have asked to release the site in stages depending on what they want to put in the copy.
Grant
December 18th, 2007
HAHA thats pretty funny!
Christopher Hawkins
December 18th, 2007
Believe it or not, I’ve had clients ask me to do that very same thing with software apps.
Client: “Can you just build it so that we can program the rest of it ourselves when we know more about how it should work?”
Me: “Oh, so you have developers on staff?”
Client: “No.”
Me: *seethes*
Dan
December 18th, 2007
“Sure I can do a basic template design. Unfortunately, I’ll have to charge you double for it.”
Corby Simpson
December 18th, 2007
…. So so true…
Mark Abucayon
December 19th, 2007
yes this is very true to happen, they will ask you to create but not well documented. very true,
Thanks.
Fazed Reality
December 19th, 2007
I’m not a freelancer – but this happened to me on practically every little project I did for others. They want a site, but don’t know what they’d like it to look like – not the faintest idea! No logo, no photos, nothing… And absolutely the worst: they want ME to create THEIR content!
I mean, I design an odd page from time to time, that’s it. Give me content and an idea or two, preferably with some color ideas and a photo or two and I can start…
Ahmad Alfy
December 20th, 2007
Happens alot!!
I designed like 5 websites for a guy who wanted to create just a dummy forms with no actions , no link , no anything …
He didn’t give me any information about what he want… All he said “I want a contact form … do the layout , the fields … etc”
Don’t you hate that? When your clients leave everything up to you then come back and tell you to modify your work!? :s
LayerHater
December 23rd, 2007
Ha, I just finished a one week project for a logo which had no name until the last 2 days of the project.