The world's dumbest web

摘要

If it weren't for clients, Web designers would be sitting on street corners with cardboard laptops. While most of them are perfectly sensible, treat their designers well and pay for the work on time, a few rogues drive designers doo-lally. As you'll discover over the next few pages, it's a jungle out there - and some clients really are bananas. Making your mind up "Clients from hell are people who don't know what they want, or don't want to pay for what they want," explains Ruth Arnold from Web designers and consultants SpaceHoppa (www.spacehoppa.com), "When you get a combination of both you need to run like hell in the opposite direction - which is easier said than done when you need to pay the mortgage." Tim Whitlock, a designer from White Interactive Ltd (www.whltelnteractlve.com) knows the feeling, He nominates "clients who want their Web site just like the PowerPoint presentation they're going to send over, but prettier," firms who send meaningless flowcharts - "just some nice coloured boxes telling you nothing whatsoever" - and the firms who can't even get their own staff to agree on anything.