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

[Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com)]

	We small businesses really only have one card to play:  you
don't get the product until you fork over the cash.  If I were you, I'd
lock it down fast and have lunch with my lawyer friends.

	This is one of those situations for which CYA was conceived; you
need to chat with your lead contractor about this, and right away.  It
may be the work of some overzealous webmaster at the client, but
assuming stuff like that is liable to get you nothing for your work.
Don't panic, but make sure you get some information from all the parties
involved.

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org On Behalf Of Clive R Sweeney

Peter Brunone (EasyListBox.com) said the following on 8/5/2004 3:17 PM:

>	Was it part of the deal?  More importantly, have they paid you 
>anything yet?
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org On Behalf Of Clive R Sweeney
>
>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?
>
No, it wasn't mentioned in the deal (either way). I guess it's one of 
those things you expect will be done according to normal practices and 
that's why I asked the question. Is it at all a normal business practice

that a company will contract a new site and download and begin to 
implement it while it's still in production? The CSS is still very much 
a work in progress and many of the links don't work as those pages 
haven't been done yet.

I'm doing this as a sub-contract for another design firm, but there was 
supposed to be a first payment which the client still hasn't made yet. 
This company is, according to a press release I just added to the site, 
valued at millions of dollars, but I can't help but feel they'd like the

whole site online and working and then make it difficult for us to be 
paid at all.

-- 
Clive R Sweeney
Designshift | Durham NC