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- gramme0
If I am the client who goes to a restaurant, eats all the food and then says it's bad & doesn't want to pay, it's because I went home, threw up, went to the doctor & found out I had gotten food poisoning.
- gramme0
Man as I web developer who gets bullshit directions from clients all the time I am not gonna assume its all this guys fault as something like the size u should have seen that from the very start.
if he has done the work at least pay him for his time...its like going to a restuarant and after eating all the food saying u dont want to pay as it was bad.
man I hate clients like you!
xhanubis
(Dec 29 05, 00:27)Why, not having any web design skill at this point, should I have known that? I asked him what size would work & he said 1024 would be good. If I had known otherwise I would have acted accordingly in the template design. And I'm not exactly a typical client, I'm a fellow designer & I never give bullshit direction as I've been on the receiving end of it myself. End of story.
My initial excitement at finally having a website overshadowed the gut-feeling issues I had; asking for opinions only confirmed that. Plus when I asked him for a certain thing, he was usually late in replying and rarely did what I actually asked for.
Think what you will about where blame should rest. I supposed I am somewhat to blame for my naivete in the hiring process and lack of web savvy. Though that is what I hired him for, his knowledge & ability. I simply expect the highest quality from people, as I expect it from myself. I will pay him for his time, he really is a nice guy, but he won't be getting referrals from me. Nuff said.
- JazX0
100%
- xhanubis0
Man as I web developer who gets bullshit directions from clients all the time I am not gonna assume its all this guys fault as something like the size u should have seen that from the very start.
if he has done the work at least pay him for his time...its like going to a restuarant and after eating all the food saying u dont want to pay as it was bad.
man I hate clients like you!
- gramme0
i hope after just a few more tweaks this'll hold me over until i get my own flashbelt.
- gramme0
fate rox the mic.
fixed splash page, improved animations, pared down file size & visual size. New tagline of course.
more changes to come, fixing the blurry text tomorrow & getting a new dang loading animation (i know, that yellow thing looks like crawling piss)
til tomorrow... thanx everyone for comments/support/disses.
I heart NT!
- fate_0
shilhous, btw, the swf isn't really all that much too big since we're talking about a fullscreen popup. It was just a bit too big, honestly I fixed it with margins and shaving about 20 pixels off the height/width.
The original designer just didn't know what he was doing. Dude would copy and past huge chunks of copy from Illustrator, meaning they're shapes inside of flash, instead of Text.
Another time he used a whole jpg instead of doing a simple linebreak.
I've redone the site for gramme, should be live soon. I shaved off about 100kb in size and basically made things faster/smoother/better.
- gramme0
hahah good one.
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
*elitist
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
well shit, gramme... if you're that dissatisfied w/my work then just tell me to my face... you don't have to go telling your elist buddies on NT... *sniff... I'll never be as... *sniff... good as them...
... it hurts... my heart is like soggy bacon - dripping of insestual ooze and torment... *sniff
*PSYCHED YA OUT! BITCH!
- gramme0
I'm doing just fine
*pinches nose & tilts back head to slow bleeding
- bradpitt0
*punches
self
in head
repeatedly
gramme
(Dec 28 05, 20:06)want me to help with that?
- gramme0
*punches
self
in head
repeatedly
- gramme0
next time i need a web guy, I'm posting it on here.
Dang I don't know why I didn't do that.
- tkmeister0
you need to be careful.
sometimes, it's better to hire more experienced flash developer at higher cost because he'll probably do it faster and quality will be better.
i just worked on the flash file done by jr designer. it was so useless i basically started over. i reduced the file size to 25% plus all scripted.
- bradpitt0
Fresh out of money, looks like I'm doing it myself. I'd rather pay the guy & be done with him.
What a nightmare...
gramme
(Dec 28 05, 19:51)explain the situation to him and tell him what a horrible job he has done. Also add that you have do it all over again and you are not willing to pay for horrible work.
- gramme0
I agree. It's only the launch of my design studio we're talking about here.
Fresh out of money, looks like I'm doing it myself. I'd rather pay the guy & be done with him.
What a nightmare...
- tkmeister0
i hate to work with incompent designers.
missing the deadline by a week is out of question.
- blaw0
make him do the edits. at least get yourself into the right ballpark.
the fact that he has to "rebuild the whole thing" will serve as a learning point for him, too (always get sign-offs at key milestones).
- kodap0
suggestion:
next tme find a competent webdesigner that signs a contract, or else a trusty mate who you can do a team-work together.