Re: A web designer's job?

by "Ryan Fischer" <ryan(at)gigabee.com>

Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:08:38 -0400
To:	"Lonna Poland" <lonna(at)granbury.com>, <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
References:	granbury
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> 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

Your job, IMO, is to do what is advertised, or what you promise to do.
Not what THEY expect you do to.  If those things don't match, you need
to determine who was in the wrong.  Never assume anything, basically.

Hope this little bit helps.

-Ryan

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