[thelist] Client wants to update page content

Andrew Maynes andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk
Wed Oct 9 17:40:02 CDT 2002


This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke?

Andrew

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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Richard McFarland
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:21
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Client wants to update page content


Dear Andrew,

I agree with your sentiments 100%. What I didn't say in my original post is
that I am *not* a professional web developer and did the site in exchange
for meals (based on a flat per hour rate) as a favor for a friend. I see now
that I should have considered more thoroughly how to accomplish this aspect
and presented him with the options and costs up front. My responsibility
entirely. Now, I just want to help him do what he wants to do as simply as
possible.

Thanks for your comments.

richard
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Richard McFarland (rlmcfarland at attbi.com)
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> From: "Andrew Maynes" <andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 21:55:50 +0100
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Client wants to update page content
>
> Excellent, I wanted to say something like this and glad someone else did.
> This
> is our industry, so we shouldn't sell ourselve out.  Does he give discounts or
> free meals to people who come in and say 'oh I didn't budget for the whole
> meal'
> I think not.
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of patrick
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 06:51
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: Re: [thelist] Client wants to update page content
>
>
> I am curious about situations such as this -- vis-a-vis 'no budget'.
> Not being privy to the particulars of this situation, forgive me if I may
> seem out of line, but this client is asking you to give him the capability
> to change things -- through a wysiwyg page-based doo-hickey or training in
> an editor -- for free.
> This is your livelihood, is it not? It is valuable, correct?
> I understand things can not always be budgeted for, but there are other
> things of value the client can offer (it's a restaurant, right?). Why not:
> For each hour of html 'training', you get one hour of cooking lessons?
> Providing a server-based solution to make updating pages easy, you get X
> number of meals in the restaurant?
>
>
> patrick
> ----- Original Message -----
>>>
>>> I know there are a myriad of server-side solutions for this, but there
> is no
>>> budget right now for developing any of them. One suggestion that has
> been
>>> made is to install a WYWIWYG html editor on his machine, teach him how
> to
>>> get the pages he wants to edit via FTP, and then re-put them when he's
> done.
>>> Of course, he could always edit the html file itself in a text editor
> but
>>> that make me pretty nervous, given his knowledge level.



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