Am I about to get fired?
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- mikotondria30
Spot on thought, Viking - it IS never finished, it's a endlessly diverging series of milestones that are often preceded by 'Just do the....' (search box and page, news feed from those places, the new contact form, amending that front page graphic slightly, fixing the margins on those pages, redoing that footer, "quickly" adding that extra field/button in the cms so that xyz happens).. What looks like barely nothing sometimes can take 5 times the estimate if you run into other unforseeable issues on the small scale. Big project deadlines are quite estimatable, but very flexible, small tasks can trip up a project and knock everything off.
It's not just a question of getting all the copy and making it look nice on a piece of paper - there are many types of paper on different machine - it's a living thing with dependecies and variables and unknown chains of effects. Most sizable sites have something 'wrong', and often teams of full-time experts to develop, maintain and fix them. Not knowing this means that that's not being explained to any clients and so the little company is never going to breakthrough into that sort of work, and I very much detect shit rolling down-hill where the wife has been battling the husband against doing this sort of work, and passing that anxiety onto you. You and the husband see eye to eye cause you share the vision that this sort of work can be done, but you need to alter how things are. The wife is 50 odd and decided many moons ago not to learn about this technology, and now thinks it's too late.- I am not a web guy but tell your bosses to review their web design contracts. Its nothing like print when it comes to development and revisionsVikingKingEleven
- development and revisions. Seems like they seem the two marketing vehicles as the sameVikingKingEleven
- Thinks*VikingKingEleven