[thelist] Client wants to update page content

[Richard McFarland]

Andrew,

Not a joke. I'll bite...Why?

Richard
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Richard McFarland <rlmcfarland at attbi.com>
206-378-6942

> From: "Andrew Maynes" <andrew at humanbehaviour.co.uk>
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 23:42:45 +0100
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thelist] Client wants to update page content
>
> This is a joke, right? Please tell me this is a joke?
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
> [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)
> 206-378-6942
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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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