Re: I Got the Intermediate Web Designer Blues

JoAnna,

All you can do is keep copies of the pages as they looked when you completed
them.   Probably all you would need is the main page.  Then if you have a
'portfolio' type of page on your site, you would have the link point to the
'original' page.  Possibly if you are concerned that someone wonders if this
is a 'real' site you could post the real URL with the disclaimer that the
original site has been modified by the site owner.

Thats all I think you can/should do.

I do sympathize however, it's happened on virtually every site I've done.
I don't think you can 'walk away' from a client if they've messed up though,
no matter how much you would like to.  Simply bill them accordingly for
correcting the site and pray they will think twice next time before
'messing' with it.

Heather
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----- Original Message -----
From: JoAnna Blanding-Koskinen <jmkoskinen(at)earthlink.net>
To: <hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 9:51 PM
Subject: I Got the Intermediate Web Designer Blues


> Hi,
>   I have a question maybe someone can answer for me. What is the
> responsibility of the web page designer to the client once the page has
> been completed? And vice-versa?
>   I have done four web pages for clients, with the hope of being able to
> use them as a reference of my work, but not two weeks after completing
> the pages for my clients, they went in there and immediately started
> moving things around, and changing this and touching that....geez! I
> even had one person with the gall to call me after the damage was done,
> ask me to fix it, and then got mad when I told her that I wouldn't be
> able to be there for her as quickly as she wanted me (The truth was,
> that she had taken up so much of my time that I just couldn't handle it
> anymore - even for money). http://www.metro.net/lillianj
> The second person has done everything from broken links to text that
> glows in the dark!! And this is a church page, folks!!
> http://www.calvarychapel.com/santarosa/index.htm
>   What am I supposed to do here? Have a disclaimer saying that the pages
> looked great at one time, but due to unforeseen circumstances - namely,
> people who have no idea of what they're doing - the pages are not
> representative of the designer?
>    I'm not great at this stuff...I'm new to it, and surprised at how
> quickly I catch on. But I'm a lot better than what has happened here,
> and now I can't even use them.
> Any suggestions? Is there something legal I can do?  And really, after
> all is said and done, isn't this the biggest reason why people sell
> template sites?
> jmkoskinen
>
>

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