give your FLA away??
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- vague
lets say you finish a flash site.
then the client says he wants the FLA files because hes hired an SEO company and they said they need the original fla files.
is that trustworthy? would you give your original files away? can an SEO company even freaking do anything to a flash file?
- Mishga0
Ah! No way!
- mrdobolina0
re-work your contract to expressly say the client does not get source files. do it now.
- madirish0
why not? worked for mr. davis pretty well....
- sureshot0
if its not in the contract..hellz no.
- mrdobolina0
I am tiger woods.
- vague0
what if they.. 'demand'
- Llyod0
make them pay
- czawada0
So vague actually does design work? He doesn't just complain about what other people do?
- joyride0
Does microsoft or apple give you the code when you buy their OS? Same deal, but at the end of the day, if you want more work from said client, give it to them, if not, well, then try to get more money.
Ultimately, you could have the SEO company send you the stuff they want to add. See if they say the same thing you are.
you should also obfuscate the files if you don't want it decompiled
- Llyod0
They could just decompile your files anyway.
- vague0
i really dont understand what a SEO company could possibly do to a flash file to make it 'optmized' for search engines.. that doesnt make any sense to me
- joyride0
nothing, they are going to add loadvars for tracking. At least that is my guess. I've had a few companies ask the same thing. In the end, they sent me the code to add because they didn't know how it worked.
- Randd0
give it away. if it truly love you, it will come back.
- ninjasavant0
those inside the fray say nay
excepting the client be given to pay
- cramdesign0
ask the client what they would do. tell them that you are unfamiliar with this and ask what a fair price would be for including something beyond the original product. what they bought was a compiled file not the source.
Tell them to go ask Colonel for the recipe so that they can make some changes to the chicken at home.
be nice about it but explain that this is how you make a living and the very fact that it has value to them should imply a cost... after all, you made it not them.
good luck.
- nearestexit0
put the source files online and let them know when you created the work it was under an open source license so anyone can have the files...
- detonatein100
Same applies for graphic source .psd's and say After Effects source.aep's Do you lay those away ethic wise?
One client ask me for my source AE source. When I told him he could have it for a certain amount he laugh at me.
And was truthful enough to tell me that he wanted to labor someone else for half the pay... and resell on stock sites!!!
Similar with coders. It's not obvious sometimes giving it all away... be careful.