client with grammar issues?
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- runrunrun
I have a client who happens to write poorly worded e-mails and does strange things with punctuation.
I've designed a bunch of templates for newsletters, but then he goes in and adds text.
I think it reflects bad on him.
Would you say anything? Can you say anything without being rude?
- sublocked0
I'd feel the need to say something, but I think in this situation it's hard to do that without coming across like a dickhead.
If you really feel like doing something, maybe try to approach it like you saw their changes and "cleaned them up like an editor would".
I have a feeling the client is probably going to be offended either way.
Good luck with it :)
- Clarita20
I lov u
- Clarita20
Sure
- drgz0
Give me his address
and I will kill him
- blogger0
Is it just me or has the qbn gone to shit with the most retarded questions and lame jokesters with their recycled jokes?
- thanks for the constructive comment, it is far superior to the retarded questions and recycled jokesmonospaced
- I was actually talking about you as wellblogger
- yeah? what retarded question did I ask? what recycled joke did I use?monospaced
- http://img.skitch.co…blogger
- that's not a recycled joke, and if it's old, it's because you guys won't shut up about it, not memonospaced
- anyway, that was from a long fucking time ago...you goddamn cuntmonospaced
- hahahahablogger
- runrunrun0
One good response?
- duckseason0
I had a similar situation.
Granted this person was from Sweden and knew that English wasn't exactly their strong point.
I ended asking them if they wanted it redone - told them I had a friend who was an English major who could take what they had already done and make it better.
In the end they were all for it.
- runrunrun0
Thing is once I design the template, its all his. It doesn't come back to me.
I just don't like seeing my design with such shitty text with it.
- set0
lol @ "I think it reflects bad on him."
- PonyBoy0
it are his responsibilities for to check grammars and the punctuation'ed items...
- d_rek0
runrunrun,
Either suggest you would like to improve upon the content he already has by copy-editing or just let it go. There's always going to be things out of your control when you give clients the ability to manage their own content.
- tOki0
^
Yeah it's particularly bad when dealing with websites - we sell the ability to update things easily through our cms as part of the project. But it often backfires :/ It's far better to sell them content management as an ongoing service if possible. It's something we do for our larger clients and seems to work well. The designer who worked on the site becomes responsible for producing imagery & graphics meaning consistency is held & a copywriter can take content that is supplied and fix where necessary.