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obviously I always try to get an exact description and to be secure. But you know their are these type of clients that cause problems and trouble in your workday. No matter how often did you said that every addicional function will have an addicional cost and now matter if you quote them on a hour rate. Because of that we prefer to say no. Sadly that is a luxus problem because I imagine that their are many freelancers/companys which cant say no because of their economic circumstances.

haha yeah maybe I will try that, luckily the relationship with this client wasnt so intensive. Maybe he would understand it better than any girlfriend of this world =)

Yeah I was thinking in that. But its quite hard to find other companys which could do that. It would be a completly started from scratch php script for his site and if you knew the market of mexico you would know that it could be quite hard to find a company which can you offer that with a quality service. Maybe I will do some research in the USA to give him some other companys. Because that is what is important, we dont want that he remember our companyname within a "bad light" (You can say it this way? )

Well the thing is we wont work with him because I think maybe he will come back and say "yeah know im sure that this is my concept and that these are all functions that i will need" but during the project he will cause problems because he will ask for other features and wont understand that their werent calculated. Sometimes you can noticed that before you begin to work and at this time we have no time for trouble.

Hey there, in various blogs you can always read that sometimes we should say "no" to clients. I actually have a client which wanted to work with us and has ask us for various calculation. It were a big project arround 3.000 usd. (I dont know how it is in the UK but here in Mexico it is a quite big budget). The problem was that he has ask us for various calculation and after every single calculation (you know that they can took really some work time) he asked for changings and new features. So it seems like the client had no idea of the website that he wanted exactly and after hundrets of emails, where we tried to explain him, that every change in the basic concept of the website will need a complete new calculation,we decided to not work with him because it seems like we would have many trouble during the project. My question is. How do you say "no" in an acurrate form and without being disrespectful without lying to the client?

That is true. And if we talk about huge websites (i dont know your example website) than we see that they always just make optimization instead of a whole redesign. Maybe because like BlueDreamer already said: people dont like change. Google is a good example, if you compare the design of the google page over the past 10 years than you can see that the basics are quite the same. The redesign last month was almost the hardest redesign ever.. Okay but google is hard to compare because of its singlepurpose website (Im not talking about the other services, just about the search engine). But I think for Facebook it would be too quite hard to redesign. Obviously their are parts which could need a redesign, but a whole redesign wont accept the users. We can see that they always just test with a little amount of users..

Hey there, so i will just give you my own honest opinion My first impression was "Affilliate Site". I dont know if you know what these kind of websites are, but normaly they are just made to rank high in google and to earn money with affilliate programs or google adsense. So why I had this impression? Because it shows very clean and very unpersonal. You use a grid and grids are nice because you can make clean and nice layouts and work effective. The users sees at every part of the page that he is on the same page and it gives him a secure feeling. But sometimes you should break the grid. If you stay to much to the grid it looks boring and too clean. Im just missing something "living" here. Maybe its enough if you work in the header with hugher fotos outside the grid. Its not a bad site I think there are just missing some living elements, something special, something which doesnt looks so boring. hope I could help you edit: BTW I have some error with Safari 5.1 on your personal website (http://www.idesignwebsites.co.uk/). There is a vertical scroll and a white area arround 100 px all over the screen on the right side.. Maybe its my fault just check it

Yeah now I have found it. How about some orange 32x32px RSS Icon?

I always use wordpress for client websites because its so easy to explain. And their are so many tutorial videos (their was a plugin for wordpress which includes a tutorial area to the admin backend, but i dont remember the name). But its a good decision to stick to one CMS so you can prepare some presentation/handouts which you can give the clients without repeat everything again again and again with every client.

Wordpress. But I normaly just do small/middle websites/blogs/newsportals. This kind of sites are realy easy to edit and customize with wordpress. If you familiar with wordpress you can edit almost everything and can implement every function that you probably need. But I think too their are some restrictions, so it doesnt suits for every kind of site...

If you have acess to the cPanel (webhosting panel of your webserver) and the mySQL myadmin maybe you can check their if you have the right email adress and/or the right username. Maybe its possible too that you can recover your password with this option, but for that we need to know what CMS do you use. For example if they use MD5 Password encrypton it should be quiete easy.

I like the name, the domain and the idea But I couldnt find a RSS-Feed. Will you implement one soon? I think this would be a nice idea to stay uptodate easier.

We have decided to try it because here in mexico most of the webhosters are resellers from usamerican services. A reseller programm (with just one IP) cost between 10 - 60 Dollars a month, so maybe a seohoster where you can do the same (but on different class-c IPs) is a better idea. Its quiete weird that almost every hoster that is out there in latin america is just a reseller of usamerican services..

Thanks for that, its hard but how I said in my introduction I want to take this too like a chance to improve my english If I make misstakes just give me a hint No its not a purchased theme. We have done the whole work in Photoshop and after that the whole programming done by hand. Maybe their are some coding-parts purcharsed (I think some jquery image preloaders) just to be effective. Normaly its a good idea for us to buy scripts that we need various times for client projects (like contact forms, etc.) than program them completly from scratch. If you dont want to review it its okay. I know its not the creativst and individual website, but that wasnt the goal. Im just interested in the opinion from your guys of our company website, maybe in comparison to other (not mexican) international or UK webdesign companys websites. When I have done my private portfolio I will open another thread, hope that I can make something more individual here

Hey there, so my reason to register me here was to talk to other webdesigners all over the world (okay I think here i will find more webdesigners from UK, but I dont think this would be a problem hehe). Another source to improve my tecniques were always webdesign blogs. unfortunately in spanish there arent really good blogs. But there are many in english. Sadly their are so many blogs in english that it is hard to find the real good ones. Especialy if you arent a foreign speaker.. I have already the obvious ones like smashingmagazine.com and webdesigner wall. The envato networks helps too but were are the small ones? the private ones? the ones of "real persons" which just make their blog for themselfs and other webdesigners not to earn money? Hope that you maybe can give me some "Insider tips" Greetings