NovajoWhite, Ugh. Options

[schizo]

I got my first commission since opening Flamora a few weeks ago. The guy said he wanted the layout to be like my The Machine vector, so I thought it would be fairly simple. I assumed all I would have to do is rearrange a few points in the original PSD and then code it.

Wrong.

Before you know it I'm trying to figure out how to add Oprah and Margaret Thatcher to the design and I'm redoing the whole right side because it wasn't 3D.

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This is why I haven't been as active lately. I spent my days staring at this thing, about to pull my hair out. There are a lot of things I would change about the final product, but they're all things he wanted.

At least now I know I have to put my foot down a bit or charge more.

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Good job with the header image. After that, I really think that it went downhill... I think that you're right about charging $50, for the design, however, you should keep in mind that the person that made his current site, charged only $15 ( that was in her prices section ). So, piss off the client, and they have the right to not complete payment ( unless you stated so in the contract ), and not use your design at all.

I think that you should make the layout wider for the center column, and side column, proportionately. It seems like it may be just a bit too small. Have you showed him the current design? Make sure that you make your client involved in any design/redesign. So you don't end up doing more work than needed.

As for the boxes with the rounded corners and the unrounded corners. You can make the div, a bit smaller, and cap the div with the image on top, and bottom with CSS.

[schizo]

^Thanks. I'll try that out if he mentions it.

I think that you should make the layout wider for the center column, and side column, proportionately. It seems like it may be just a bit too small. Have you showed him the current design? Make sure that you make your client involved in any design/redesign. So you don't end up doing more work than needed.

I did my best to keep him involved and I think that's why I started getting so frustrated. I showed him a sketch, the header image when it was almost finished, a full mock-up, and different stages of the actual coded page. We were emailing back and forth a lot. The problem was that he asked for things to be changed that were there twenty steps beforehand that he didn't mention when I showed him the first time. It's a lot of work to have to go back and change something that has already been set in place. While the end product isn't necessarily worth more that $50, I guess that's why I feel like I should have charged more.