Re: A web designer's job?

It's always friends.  He needs to do the work unless it is spelled out in a
contract that you will do it all.  Then stiff him for ongoing catalog
maintenance.

Therein lies the problem: ongoing maintenance.  I use a tool for PDF called
Print to PDF.  The problem with that no security and no book marks or
internal and external links.  So it is not good for catalogs.  My standing
fee for a 20 page, linking and protected catalog is the current cost of
Acrobat with 2 free updates thrown in.

If someone wanted a catalog with book marks then I would buy Adobe Acrobat
and send him the bill for it as catalog programming and generation, plus I
would keep the software and offer him a better deal next time.

At 11:41 AM -0500 7/30/02, Lonna Poland wrote:
>I have a client who wanted to put his catalog online in PDF format.
>He asked me about it and I gave him information about several software
>programs that would create the files for him, and that I would be
>happy to put them on his web site once they were created.  Later I
>found out that his friend was very critical of me, saying that if I
>had been a "professional" web designer, I would have had the software
>to do this for him, hence I was a poor web designer.
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought it was the web designer's job
>to design the backgrounds, navigation buttons/bars, and adjust/resize
>pictures to put on a web site, do the layout and functionality of the
>web site, etc., to make it work properly for the intention for which
>it was created.  For this I have all the proper software and I have
>many happy clients.  Is it my job to also have the PDF software to put
>catalogs into PDF format, or is this the job of a graphics art
>designer or the client himself?
>
>Just curious.... thanks,
>Lonna

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