I came across a good article yesterday with the title, The business case for Web standards-based development. I like the break down at the end of the article of all the benefits that come with designing a standards compliant web site.
It got me thinking about the clients I’ve had in the last year. Most of [...]
My guess would be most web designers learn this lesson pretty early, but I’d like to add it to the Best Practices canon anyway. You design web sites all the time for all kinds of clients. As a result, you’ve built up a good deal of knowledge about what does and does not work in [...]
I should start by saying this post isn’t exactly groundbreaking. I’m confident that I’m not the first person to think about the pros and cons of communicating with clients via phone versus email. That is what is on my mind this week, though, which means it’s going in the blog.
Wouldn’t it be great if clients new exactly what they wanted and could articulate it to you at the beginning of a project? At the very least it would make things faster, but that’s not he world we live in. No matter how much questioning and planning you do before sitting down at your computer [...]
What most clients want to hear about search engine optimization is that a few hours adding some keywords to their site will rocket them to the number one result on Google, Yahoo!, and MSN for any and all searches that contain their product or service. In some industries that was possible 10 years ago. I [...]
When it comes to keeping the bills paid, it can be very useful to have a few cash cow customers. These guys and gals always seem to have more work to send your way. In the best possible scenario, they’re even willing to delay projects a month or two if you don’t have the available [...]
