Posted by Bernhard Sturm on 04/07/07 15:17

Vince Morgan wrote:

> They asked me to make an additional page and liked the layout, so piece by
> piece I ended up redoing most of the front end.
> Web technologies are not my thing and I didn't plan to or expect to find
> myself doing this.

Hmmm.. I don't want to be offensive, but I have heard such stories in
the past quite many times. It's the typical story of an 'organically'
grown structure of a website.
The needs of a website change, and nobody wants to spend some money,
because someone 'handy' and half-knowledgable is at hands to 'fix' or to
adapt the site to the grown needs.

However, as a professional myself, this is not a fruitful way and leads
to a lot frutstration. Guranteed. As you just seem to witness. The fact,
that you state that 'web technologies are not my thing' should give you
a warning. If it's not your 'thing' then why are you trying to do it? In
many terms this is unwise, and you will provoke probably more harm than
doing good for the company in question. IMHO: ask them to spend some
money on it, hire a pro and let him do it.
It's all a question of priority: if they think of themselves as
professionals in their business, then they should also work with
professionals. If this is not the case, and they don't consider the site
as important for them, then you are on the perfect right track :-)

cheers
bernhard


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