[thelist] Turn a pdf into a website?
Barney Carroll
barney.carroll at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 13:19:59 CDT 2011
Unsure what you mean by bad form. You must tell them that by simply uploading the .PDF to a given location — even if its made browser-convenient via some embedding method such as SlideShare — they are missing out on most of the points of having a site at all. Search-visibility, ease-of-access, an agreeable user experience and more all go out the window. If all they want is a URL with that file at the end of it, then it's minimal effort and they'll have gotten what they insisted they wanted…
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Barney Carroll
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On 1 Sep 2011, at 19:05, Chris Dorer <cdorer at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO, I'd just whip up a quick SquareSpace site and hand it off.
>
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Matt Warden <mwarden at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
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>>> I have a client who wants the cheapest possible website, just to show the
>>> apartments for rent in a very small building. He asked me if he can send
>> me
>>> the pdf and have me make that the website.
>>>
>>> I wanted to say "You must be joking!" but then I suppose this is
>> possible,
>>> but is there some reason it is considered really bad form?
>>
>> Creating the cheapest site possible will make it look like the
>> cheapest site possible. If your client is fine with that, do what
>> he/she wants and cash the check.
>>
>> I'd leave it off of my resume, though.
>>
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