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

date posted 12th November 2007 11:51

I have had this same problem many times. I think generally as a collective
unit most clients have a fairly limited knowledge of the web and often are
poorly advised by some backyard hack that can write three lines of code and
believe paying such and such is a rip off.

They are generally the same type of client that can't separate content
creation and web design. Best advice get out while you can.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Phillip Healey" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:10 PM
Subject: FN-FORUM: Your Kingdom for a Donkey.



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;

'I know it's a fairly quick, simple and small job for somebody with the
right skills'

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 / £230 and delivered within 'a
few days'.

I wouldn't tell a plumber its an easy job so ill pay him £5 and he can
finish it within 10 minutes. Well, if I did he'd tell me to [EMAIL REMOVED] off!

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?

Discuss.

Regards
Phill Healey
Munklefish
Po Box 70
Manchester
M34 3SQ
T: 0161 408 4759



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