I've always found that the client will respect you most if you are honest with them. You also have to remember that your job is to work for the best interests of your client. With that said, I know that you have to make a living.
I would spend a few minutes and talk with the client. Explain that you can get this mess 'working', but that they should not forget that the code will still be a mess... and that even though you can make it 'work', it does not ensure that their app will work in the long run. You could always lay the project out in phases as well. Something like this: Phase One: Get existing site working quick and dirty Phase Two: Outline first step in CF migration Phase Three: Final step in CF migration And typically, when the contract for the project is signed, a good-faith down payment is given, followed by progress payments with each phase. In this solution, they would see that getting the site working is only a step so that they aren't down during the rest of development. -- Jillian -----Original Message----- From: chad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 10:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Advise Needed We were approached by a company to refresh their web site. It currently is a mess of PHP, CGI, and perl. Basically it does not work. It pulls a 500 error everytime something is added to the basket. They want us to quote moving the site since they cannot get anyone to fix their current web site. I am really afraid of moving the site to one of our servers since we don’t have one that is PHP/Perl. I am afraid we will spend more time fixing the old site then it is worth and once we got it running they would bail out on the CF refresh we quoted them. I would rather leave the site at the current provider, fix the site so it at least works, then start developing the CF refresh. Then comes my fear that once we get the site running they will never want to do the CF refresh we quoted them. I suppose we will have to invest in a lawyer to draw up a contract that says we will fix the current site and they WILL contract use to do the CF refresh. Any other ideas on how to approach this situation? I don’t want to get burned. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
