some advice please
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- qaddisin
got this new client, shes an artist looking to put her work on the web. i designed two layouts for her, both with nice navigation schemes (thumbnails/paging)- very creative and she didn't like it. she never surfs the web. she wants something simple and after sitting down with her and taking away all the navigation elements we ended with a layout that looks like something photoshop could automate and spit out. so then i thought praystations old layout and showed her, she thought that was ok. so she is totally draining my creativity. how should i deal with this situation professional and have something i can still put in my portfolio.
- Vain0
take it up the ass homeboy, keep working till she's happy, charge her for the multiple redesigns, then go back and put one of the layouts you really liked in your portfolio.
sorry man...i know your pain.
- stewart0
design something for her that fits to her concepts and thoughts.
please show what you already did, to get an image.
- shant0
If she's being stubborn and you've already tried to reason your designs with her, than do what she likes, get paid for it, and show future clients the shit that you're proud of.
- qaddisin0
http://www.arcanegraphics.com/fi…
the layouts are ok now that im looking @ them again maybe not the best but i wiped them up in like 20 minutes.
good advice people. thanx.
- ********0
give her what she wants. minimal navigation and big pictures of her art. I'm guessing that you tried to artfart up the site and jaz it up with your own fart / graphics. that's the last thing ann artist wants, someone else's "crappy" art surrounding theirs...
get your money, make it hella clean and easy to see her art.
- ********0
looking at the comps... looks clean...
- qaddisin0
she didnt like the layouts i did. but she did like the old praystation layout, so i can work from there i guess.
- lovaboy0
IMHO, the only major difference between yours and the PS layout is that you've got stuff "floating," i.e., try connecting your design elements more for what design professionals like to call "gestalt." Or something.
- Vain0
i think the difference is rather big. anyways i like it...spice it up maybe just a little bit. add a nice bg, cooler buttons maybe?
- qaddisin0
good point lovaboy.
this client didnt know you could have thumbnails on a website. she wants her site to be like a walk-in gallery with nothing around it.
tell you the truth i convienced her not to have each image on a seperate page by itself stating the costs of bandwidth and the user having to click back to get
to the navigation again.we'll see.
- qaddisin0
vain (dan) i will do my best.
- Vain0
just looked at your website...i like it.
i like the look and feel your work has.
- qaddisin0
thank you very much.
- JamesEngage0
Are you designing for her, or for you?