I was chatting to a designer, Lina, yesterday.
I asked her how she usually deal with difficult clients?
Time is money.
because it costs more if the project keeps on dragging and eventually there goes all the profit.
She said she’d just talk nicely to the good clients. Email them nicely, friendly reminder and hopefully they’ll give feedback or pay promptly. While for the bad ones, just go strict on them. She added that there’s nothing much that she can do, because they’re the king.
Well, clients are always right. That’s what we were taught in the school, learned in the books..
But is it?
We’ll meet all kinds of clients, different situation, different personalities.. how does a single generic theory fits to all?
I wonder.
I told Lina my thoughts.
I’d just drop the client if it’s too difficult to go on dealing with. To cut losses.
Or at least, to save my own butt from troubles.
Apparently, it’s a very delicate process how to handle clients and customers.
I don’t think that clients are always right unless they are aware of what they’re saying.
People who judge might be the one who pays but might not be as knowledgeable as the professionals do.
Being a professional, we may advice.
Because in the end of the day, not being technically arrogant, we’re the professionals.
Categories: Deal.
Tags: designing malaysia, internet design malaysia, web design malaysia, web professional, website design, website design malaysia
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January 19, 2008 at 1:45 pm
We had a humble begining when we just started our web design business 6 years ago. Some customers asked for mockup before project confirmation.
Yes, you have a test drive before you buy a car, some sample to test before you order something. But this should never happen to a web design project.
What is a mockup? Mockup is the draft design of the website that you are going to produce later. Customer feel that by looking at the mockup, they can judge how good is a web design company, and then only to confirm.
There is a cost to develop a mockup. Mockup is a result of detail study of customer’s service and products, understand how to present the website and to make it interesting. It is part of the development, and there is cost associated with it.
My personal experience of dealing with customers who wish to have a mock up…
99.99% you don’t get the deal, see :)
Categories: Deal, Project.
By Pin
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January 16, 2008 at 3:46 pm
When we enter the website, the sentences shown in the Flash banner will be in its original language, which is English. The variable and data (sentences) that shown in the Flash are stored in a php file. When want to change the contents of website to another language, the php file will call to translation part. Process of forming the translation file are as below:
A tool, gettext is run in order to extract all the translatable strings from the sources (which stored in php) and implant them in a single .POT file.
This .POT file is actually a .PO (Portable Object) template that you distribute to your translators in order for them to translate it.
The translators will send you back a .PO file, containing both the original English version and the translated strings.
After that, compilation of the .PO file into a .MO (Machine Object) file is done. It is stored at
the correct place in the defined directory and file naming organization.
Then, the _() function in the php file will automatically display the translated strings in the Flash banner at that website, depending on the locale set at runtime.
Read more here
Categories: Tutorial.
Tags: flash banner, multilingual flash, translation file
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November 7, 2007 at 12:02 pm
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Categories: Freebies.
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September 27, 2007 at 1:50 am
Stock.XCHNG is one of the leading FREE stock photo site on the internet, updated regularly and featuring more than 250,000 of images by photographer from all around the world. Images play an important role in web design and a great image can make a different in design. Stock.XCHNG provides range of photos such as abstract, architecture, nature, people and a lot more. Remember to check ‘Hall of Frame’ category, where you can find all the highest rated, most commented, and most downloaded images. It’s certainly a good place for designers to start looking for the images they wanted. Apart from providing free images, they also feature some tutorials for photographer and also blog for people to share and discuss.
If you are looking for better quality and higher resolution images, Stockxpert is definitely the place for you. It’s a royalty free stock photography community with the goal to provide customers with affordable stock imagery while offering a powerful tool to photographers and digital artists who would like to sell their work. They have hundreds of thousands of high quality images covering all kinds of topics in over 150 categories and updated with new images every week. You can get stock images as low as $1.
Categories: Freebies.
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September 27, 2007 at 12:23 am
Welcome to WebDesigning.com.my. Here is a place where designers can share their works, ideas and find out the latest web design trends. If you have any interesting topics, ideas or work you have done would like to share with all of us. Please feel free to drop us a comment along with your website URL. Thank you!
Categories: Main News.
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September 25, 2007 at 2:33 am