February 6th, 2008 Posted in Business, Web Design

Exactly the kind of customer I don’t want

I spoke to a potential customer for a website today, and it wasn’t good. He thinks he knows how to make websites because he knows how to load Dreamweaver. He doesn’t like “gimmicks” such as the beautiful, easy to use and classy Lightbox image viewer. He doesn’t want to pay very much. He is basically ignorant of what is involved in a quality website, and offensively opinionated with no concept of what his visitors will want to see. He only cares about what he wants to see.

Bear in mind this guy couldn’t even log in to a control panel, and asked if he could change his name servers from an FTP session within a web browser. It is often said that your bottom few customers (in terms of budget and pleasantness) will sap all your time, end up comissioning shit websites that you don’t want on your portfolio and will make you wish you had declined working with in the first place. I think I’ll pass on this client…