Comments on: Freelance Freedom #31

By: LayerHater

LayerHater — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:32:39 +0000

Ha, I just finished a one week project for a logo which had no name until the last 2 days of the project.

By: Ahmad Alfy

Ahmad Alfy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:00:31 +0000

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

By: Fazed Reality

Fazed Reality — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:06:54 +0000

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…

By: Mark Abucayon

Mark Abucayon — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:21:53 +0000

yes this is very true to happen, they will ask you to create but not well documented. very true,
Thanks.

By: Corby Simpson

Corby Simpson — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:11:51 +0000

…. So so true…

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:08:52 +0000

“Sure I can do a basic template design. Unfortunately, I’ll have to charge you double for it.”

By: Christopher Hawkins

Christopher Hawkins — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:44:25 +0000

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*

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:38:51 +0000

HAHA thats pretty funny!

By: Harry Roberts

Harry Roberts — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:17:54 +0000

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.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 15:49:00 +0000

“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”.