[thelist] Business practice -- client implementing site while project is incomplete

[patrick]

Clive R Sweeney wrote:
> Is it normal for a client to start downloading and implementing a site
> (i.e., the HTML, CSS, and images) while the work is in progress? Right
> now about half the site has been posted on my site *for review* and the
> client has put it on their site. (Note: while their site is live, it's
> under a new, combined domain name, and so they must be assuming no-one
> will access it yet.) In my experience, the project continues until the
> completed version of the site is ready and approved, and then the client
> takes the files and adds them to their site.
> 

Have you been paid?I generally write my contracts to where the site will
not be posted to the live server until payment is complete.


patrick sanders
http://www.stoutstreet.com
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