what would you do?
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- leftwave
you've been maintaining a clients website for over a year and now they got suckered into some search engine optimization package with some big-wig company who is promising them the world (i.e. #1 on google). this new B.S. company is also going to now host and maintain the website that you designed and have been maintaining for over a year. as soon as they need to make anything more than a simple text change, they are inevitably going to ask you for the photoshop layered file so they can manipulate it to make the changes to the site for the client.
do you:
a) just give them the damn files because they're a pain in your ass and you don't want to deal with them anymore anyway (even though the client pays you good $$$)?
b) refuse to give up the files that you designed and therefore "own" and insist that if they want changes to the site they they need to go through you?thoughts...?
- kld0
keep the files and make the skrilla
any south swells this summer?
- blaw0
c) be prepared with documentation and costs so that when they call you can say, "absolutely, not a problem, i'll send over the necessary documentation this afternoon. once it's signed off on i'll transfer the files to you."
- jevad0
You charge for any source
- leftwave0
are you guys saying that i turn around and sell this other company my source files that the client already paid by having me design their site in the first place??
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kld: summer swells here started out soo promising, but the last few weeks have been FLAT - a good thing since i have an amazing amount of work to do!
- jox0
Are you guys saying that i turn around and sell this other company my source files that the client already paid by having me design their site in the first place??
leftwave
(Aug 12 05, 02:02)Exactly. And unless stated in the original contract, the client never purchased the source files. They bought the goal – the road to it is still yours.
- leftwave0
hmmm, i like it! i need some new toys too!
so the next obvious question, what do you guys think is a fair price for the PSD layered files used to create a $3000 site?
one more question too: do i bring this issue up with the client at all, or do i just make the deal strictly with the 3rd party client who is going to be the clients new host/bitch?