Re: Painful clients [was Webmaster or Web Designer]

>> How do I handle this?  The deal is that I work at home (travel to this
>> place is over an hour each way).  He wants me to work in house, dispite
the
>> fact he has no graphics programs.  The only thing I can think of is to
>> double the amount I charge for working in house to discourage him - and
it
>> might discourage him from "fiddling" and then having to get me in to fix
>> things again!



This sounds highly suspect to me.   WHY do you have to work at his home?
Does he supervise everything you are doing?   Is he afraid you are ripping
him off?   Or does he figure he will get free lessons on site design while
you are there?   This guy sounds extremely creepy to me and I would not have
taken a job like this under any circumstances.  If you pack it in, don't
feel bad, and don't look back.  Some clients just are going to be a pain and
it isn't YOUR fault when things don't work out.

As a side note:  I have a lot of clients who wish to do have access to make
'minor' changes to their sites.  Often they break things as you described.
Before they get their hands on the site, I make sure I have a full backup!
Then if something breaks, it is easily fixed.

Good luck Eliza!

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