RE: FN-FORUM: Your Kingdom for a Donkey.

date posted 12th November 2007 11:35

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> Phillip Healey
> Sent: 12 November 2007 12:11
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> Subject: FN-FORUM: Your Kingdom for a Donkey.
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> Here's a small snippet from a typical website where people are asking
> for
> some web development / addition to a current site to be carried out;
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> 'I know it's a fairly quick, simple and small job for somebody with =
the
> right skills'
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> Why is it that no-one/ very few people (except bigger corporations)
> give any
> real value to their websites / the work done by the developer. As im
> sure
> has been discussed many times before there are numerous, supposedly
> professional tender sites where people want Google, YouTube, Amazon =
and
> Ebay
> rolled into one website for an outlay of $500 / =A3230 and delivered
> within 'a
> few days'.
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> I wouldn=92t tell a plumber its an easy job so ill pay him =A35 and he =
can
> finish it within 10 minutes. Well, if I did he'd tell me to [EMAIL REMOVED] off!
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> So why is it that even businesses whom have been burned in the past by
> paying low fees for a website, still want the world for no more than
> 20p and
> a few hours work, because it's an easy job? Am I alone in not only
> finding
> this frustrating, but somewhat arrogant?
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> Discuss.
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I recently had a prospective client, with whom I'd had a good meeting =
and
passed a quote on to; I thought I was going to get the job. Anyway, =
after a
few days I finally got through to her and it was "Oh, I've got a friend
who's going to do it for me now" when I asked her if her friend was =
going to
build the same system with all the features I'd mentioned she said "I =
don't
know"... So I completely know what you mean. I just know she's going to =
end
up with something that's nowhere near as good as what I was going to do, =
but
she obviously didn't value what I had proposed... didn't realise the =
value
in good graphic design, usability and robust, cross-browser coding. =
Sigh.
Maybe she'll be back in six months...

The problem is though that to build a simple website... is simple. It's
just that people don't understand what professional designers/developers =
do
and that you get what you pay for.

Phil

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