Some people are so tight with money (even those with alot) that they settle for cheap mess rather then refined bliss.
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Viable Design <desi...@viabledesign.com>wrote: > I've been feeling a bit guilty for the past few months because I wouldn't > get the bugs out of a friend's insurance-business site for him on the > ultra-cheap. The tables and inline mess would've taken so long to sort out > that I probably would've been better off, time-wise, starting from scratch. > I offered him a discounted rate, but it wasn't enough of a discount for him, > I guess. > > Now, I'm thinking I did the right thing after all. I know he wouldn't've > appreciated the clean coding, and he definitely wouldn't've appreciated the > time spent. > > Jo Hawke > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Simon Pascal Klein <kle...@klepas.org>wrote: > >> >> On 30/01/2009, at 2:15 AM, <kie...@humdingerdesigns.co.uk> < >> kie...@humdingerdesigns.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Join the club, I've been commissioned to do a local website and the guy >>> was hoping he'd be able to get a quick bug-fix on his current with a bit of >>> updating. >>> >>> Unfortuanetly the css was akin to the Guttenberg Bible; completely >>> unreadable and would have been a pig to translate. Not to mention, a strange >>> and chaotic mishmash of tables, frames and weird proprietary software >>> markup. Some clients (and this one did, thank god) need to realize that when >>> the original is written by a back street bedroom "I can do that" wannabe, >>> they're paying for someone who can stick a few words and pics up and not >>> much else. >>> >> >> Wel, I for one, relish at the idea of getting my hands on a Gutenburg >> Bible and reading it… well analysing the lettering and type rather, but hey. >> :-) >> >> >> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] >>> On Behalf Of James Jeffery >>> Sent: 29 January 2009 14:13 >>> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >>> Subject: Re: [WSG] Failed A Job :( >>> >>> [...] >>> >> >> --- >> Simon Pascal Klein >> Graphic & Web Designer >> >> Web: http://klepas.org >> E-mai: kle...@klepas.org >> Twitter: @klepas; http://twitter.com/klepas >> >> >> Kaffee und Kuchen. >> >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org > ******************************************************************* > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
