Stupid things that clients say
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- oculasm
What are the most stupid things that your clients have said or asked for?
- 4cY0
ha, there are like a billion threads on this matter...
i recommend you to look 'em up, as there are quite a bunch o' hillarious quotes in there.
;)
- Antonelli0
"Can you send a URL in an e-mail even though you don't have Windows XP?
- err0
I think mouse trails will make the CD-Rom look more professional.
- BonSeff0
"it doesnt work"
- what browser are you using?
"netscape"
- what version?
"I dunno, its got my email on it"
UUGGGHHHHH!
ns4 has been a thorn in my side since day 1. i always seem to find the clients that use it
- Stanton0
haha... mouse trails are cool!
- Bio0
can you take this 50px x 50px at 72dpi file and just blow it up and print it for me?
something high-res.
i dont wanna pay much for it, so if you could just kinda slip it in when youget a chance... say by tomorrow afternoon?
oh, and it would be nice if we could get that on a disk too.
i get shit like that ALL the time.
- fues0
"Can you put the site on the Geocities? They definitely have the best web tools."
"Can't you just build the site in Powerpoint? It would take 'me' 5 hours maximum.."
"Can you alter the color a bit? (after 20 html-pages were done)"
etc
- 4cY0
hahaha...
this happened two weeks ago, our organization logo to be printed on flyers and posters:
(not a client, but a retard dtp at the printer):"hello"
"sup?'
"we need your logo again"
"why?"
"we lost it"
"the eps?"
"yes, but it's already on everything, but we needed to redo the flyer as we lost that file too.."
"well, i am not at the office right now.."
"ouch"
"can't you get the eps from the poster?"
"no, i can't access that file from here"
"is it small?"
"what?"
"the flyer, ofcourse!"
"yes, A6"
"in that case, just for now get the bitmap logo from our site"
"ok, i'll try that"
"wait!"
"yes?"
"you promise me to NOT, and i repeat NOT, use that webpic on the giant poster, ok??"
"ofcourse not, it's just for the flyer"...
2 weeks later..
posters are all over the region:
and..
at the bottom shines a giant beautiful ultrapixellated logo of ours!!
GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!! :/
- Bio0
death.
- fues0
nice one 4cy :-)
"Save that Powerpoint as a screensaver, we need it right away!"
"We want the banner to show up first and full-screened and then it must slightly rescale into its place on the html-page"
- fues0
"Okay, "the flash" looks nice but can you just quickly draw a guy who is standing in a row at the post office and looks at its watch while two others are shaking hands? We need it in about an hour. Thanks!"
- 4cY0
i feel your pain, fues!
- mastadon0
we would like a site that looks just like twoadvanced, can you
fix that?
- jox0
"we want the site to be awesome, like so futuristic with lotsa sploosh and splash and booms all over it, and then the text should just fade in like a bomb, you know with a nifty sound like ka-blaam!"
"quite frankly sir, I'm not sure this would be very suitable for you. After all, you are a law firm, and a very respectable one"
from a trainee at a law firm I worked with, according to the law firm's bosses, he "knows the web". Haven't i heard that before? No matter who you work for, they always have somebody there (or know somebody) who is an expert in what you're about to do - always coming up with the dumbest f-ing ideas.
- mvb20
Didn't happen to me, but watched it happen to a co-worker...
"We need this designed and printed and in Sale's Mail by Friday afternoon."
CoWorker: "Ok, just give me the copy and the images for it and I'll put it together."
"Oh, well we don't have the finalized copy or images yet."
CW: "Ok...when will I have them?"
"Friday afternoon..."
Me: *Rolls Eyes*
CW: *bangs head on desk for a few minutes*
- oculasm0
Client:
Its okay.. but I cant read the numbers.. could you make that font bigger. we also want our logo to be larger. and some more colour and pictures on the page please. we like the colours blue and red for the text like our own logo.
- Mick0
Standard pointless responses to design mockups...
"Can you make it POP more"
"Can you add more color"
"It looks too you square, can you add more curves or something"
"ILook at this site, it has a black line at the top... I think you should so something with a black line"
"Can you add a globe somwhere"List goes on forever.
But my favorite is when a client says to do something... (eg. make that color darker), then after you do it they say "You know what, can you make that color lighter".
- sexypixel0
the best one to happen to me yet..
me: "can i get your logo in vector format?"
client: "sure, is it ok to fax it to you?"
- jgjh1510
<-- loves vectors
- mikotondria0
A true life one that promoted me to develop something I use all the time now...
I built a basic little site for a concert comany, in FLash, as requested...once it was up and they were happy with it....'Can you make it so that we can change all the information, like concert dates and, ....well everything, ourselves?'...