How to drive your website designer nuts!

(All in the spirit of fun and laughing a bit at human nature, right?)

Client won’t supply content
Client thinks you’ll magically make up content
Client thinks you can use a competitor’s content (it’s called stealing!)
Client needs the website to be done ASAP while simultaneously not supplying content or getting back to you during the design process
Client is computer illiterate and expects you to design a wide-target audience website around their inabilities (Internet Explorer only; no scrolling allowed; “CLICK HERE” on links, etc)
Client thinks they’re a better graphic/UI designer than you are and micromanages you to ultimately creating a really bad website
Towards the end of development, the client doesn’t understand why you can’t quickly redesign the whole site based on a sudden whim and still meet the deadline (or not charge more money!)
Client does not understand “dummy text” and “dummy images” and subsequently hates all design concepts – worse when they still won’t supply text or images
Potential client doesn’t understand why it costs so much, and always has some friend or relative who’d do it for $30 and a six-pack of beer
This link, to a YouTube video, is about people looking for film editors for ‘free/good exposure’, is all too true for a variety of creative folks (web, print, film) and what we hear all too often: You’ll get exposure, and a credit!

8 Types of Bad Creative Critics

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In the end,
a bad website costs more than a good website ,
and a great website is a Mike Truese Creation!