Web design clients are....Special.

[Seraph]

<eyetwitch> I had to miss our Icecrown 25 raid tonight for THESE guys?


Scrolllllllll!

Client: Ok, and I want a scrollbar in that one.
Seraph: Gotcha, the coder will add that in.

Three minutes later

Client: Ok, and I want a scrollbar on that side.
Seraph: Yes, I said that the coder will have to that...
Client: Ohhh ok

Ten minutes after THAT one

Client: Where is the scrollbar?
Seraph: Its a static image, the scrollbar will be added in the website by the coder.
Client: Oh ok, I thought you drawed it.



Oh, my....

<client discussing beer, women, and generally being...erm....manly? You know what I mean.>

Seraph: Well, glad to be working with you! Now let's get down to business. What would you like to see on your website?

Client: I want a blue theme, with lots of sparkles, fireworks, like pretty flowers. Maybe purple? I want pretty text too! And heavy on sparkles!



And now the sad finale...

I work a sorta part time job for a company in Florida, doing their advertisements and such. I call him my boss because, well, he sorta is one? Eh...anyways they all know I'm big on playing World of Warcraft, heck, they poke fun at it a lot.

Boss' Wife: Hey, I need a PowerPoint presentation done.
Seraph: Um, sure....but I sorta have a raid tonight in WoW, I've planned on it all last week. Can it wait?
BW: Sure, get it to me tomorrow morning.
Seraph: ....Okay...I guess I'll be up late working on that after the raid then....
BW: Awesome!

Sure, for you, not for me...thanks. Didn't matter anyways, because 30 minutes later after I finished dinner...

Boss: Hey, you got a min?
Seraph: Sure, my raid starts soon though.
Boss: Whatever, look at this <links me a high budget website>
Boss: I need something like this, tonight.
Seraph: But I have a raid tonight....can't it wait? When do you need it?
Boss: Like, now.
Seraph: .....


So yeah, I am now chained to my computer tonight while my husband gets to raid. Worst part is a weapon I've been dying to get dropped tonight and it went to someone who didn't really want it. At least I have Starburst?...

[underemployeed]

My one friends boss runs a web design store and doesn';t know much about computers.

Because of things like AJAX and SOAP, they decided to make up LYSOL and start talking about it around the boss and he says he been using it since it came out, so I guess they know he even more clueless than they thought.

[Bloodsoul]

This is why I have been designing my own website for years; I don't have to waste anyone's time with my inane ideas, plus it's just fun.

[ShadowTiger]

It's kinda funny. My boss plays World of Warcraft religiously, and it's my coworkers that distract him from raiding.

[Zell]

<client discussing beer, women, and generally being...erm....manly? You know what I mean.>

Seraph: Well, glad to be working with you! Now let's get down to business. What would you like to see on your website?

Client: I want a blue theme, with lots of sparkles, fireworks, like pretty flowers. Maybe purple? I want pretty text too! And heavy on sparkles!

Web 1.0 much?

The first thing that popped into my head was Geocities back in 1998.

[tropicsgoddess]

Web 1.0 much?

The first thing that popped into my head was Geocities back in 1998.

I once had a geocities website....but that was years ago when I was young...er.

[underemployeed]

I once had a geocities website....but that was years ago when I was young...er.

Yeah so did I, and it got me suspended from school. which later i found out they had no right to do.

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Ok, so...when do you get to have a life outside of work? Frankly I'd tell this guy that "X" day I am not doing ANYTHING related to work from X-time-to-X-time. Failure to plan on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.

[Imogene]

<client discussing beer, women, and generally being...erm....manly? You know what I mean.>
I want a blue theme, with lots of sparkles, fireworks, like pretty flowers. Maybe purple? I want pretty text too! And heavy on sparkles!

When I have the money to do it, I want to buy one of those humongous oversized trucks, the ones with the double wide rear axle? And get it painted eye searing bright pink. Because that would make it scream both male and female, I hope, and I'm all for gender equality.

[Seraph]

Ok, so...when do you get to have a life outside of work? Frankly I'd tell this guy that "X" day I am not doing ANYTHING related to work from X-time-to-X-time. Failure to plan on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on mine.

No kidding...its especially worse for me since I have two kids. My day pretty much consists of being Mom up until they go to bed, and then working my butt off as fast as I can before *I* pass out, lol.

It's kinda funny. My boss plays World of Warcraft religiously, and it's my coworkers that distract him from raiding.

Oh, BW plays Warhammer....and nobody interrupts her. :P Different though for me, of course.

When I have the money to do it, I want to buy one of those humongous oversized trucks, the ones with the double wide rear axle? And get it painted eye searing bright pink. Because that would make it scream both male and female, I hope, and I'm all for gender equality.

That would be awesome!

[Andara Bledin]

The first thing that popped into my head was Geocities back in 1998.

Feh. Sounds like MySpace now.

As far as Raid Time being interrupted; count it as a vacation time.

You've got plans, and unless it's a real emergency, you shouldn't have to give up your personal life.

Then again, I work in a situation where I would be well compensated to do things outside of the normal work hours, so that's easy for me to say.

^-.-^

[Ironclad Alibi]

Client: I want a blue theme, with lots of sparkles, fireworks, like pretty flowers. Maybe purple? I want pretty text too! And heavy on sparkles!

Ouch, I feel your pain. I set up and maintain a web site for an organization I belong to, a Civil War Round Table. It's a nice, professional looking and simple web site that I have received many compliments on. Our current president (we get a new one every year) wants the web site to "have more color". I'm tempted to point out to her that the only colors they had in the Civil War were blue and gray.

[Andara Bledin]

Ouch, I feel your pain. I set up and maintain a web site for an organization I belong to, a Civil War Round Table. It's a nice, professional looking and simple web site that I have received many compliments on. Our current president (we get a new one every year) wants the web site to "have more color". I'm tempted to point out to her that the only colors they had in the Civil War were blue and gray.

Oh, hey, they're only asking for more of one color, right? Otherwise, they'd want more colors.

So, just ask if they want more gray or more blue.

^-.-^

[BlaqueKatt]

When I have the money to do it, I want to buy one of those humongous oversized trucks, the ones with the double wide rear axle? And get it painted eye searing bright pink. Because that would make it scream both male and female, I hope, and I'm all for gender equality.

I had an ex boyfriend that had his truck painted to match my lipstick*....before we started dating.....he actually took my glass with lip print on it to the paint shop to colormatch.....I thought it was really sweet at the time...in retrospect it was kinda creepy.......


* I only wore one color at the time....

[kittiebaker]

In regards to the "manly guy" wanting all that on the website: Only manly men wear pink, only manly men ask for sparkly purple web pages.