one shit website

A couple of years ago I was asked to make a website for someone to promote their marketing plan.

It started out simple enough but the client kept making changes like adjusting colours, swapping fonts, putting new and tacky backgrounds in.

By the end of it he was quite happy but I hated it, so when it came to putting it into my portfolio I slotted it in with the defunct sites so it wouldn’t come up in the general category that people first find. I actually didn’t want to put it there at all.

Yesterday afternoon the owner got in contact with me and said that he felt that the site hadn’t worked for him and he would like to build a different one for is expanded business. He told me that he felt the site looked tacky and implied that maybe I could have done a better job.

I tactfully mentioned that he had made a lot of changes to the design that he originally said yes to, although I really wanted to tell him that it was his meddling in the layout that had killed his site.

I know that some of the links were not working properly because he had tampered with the code after I had signed off on it, something that I would normally fix up as I notice but with his I just didn’t want to have anything to do with it.

So he called me on Saturday afternoon and again on Saturday evening and then he called at 9am this morning.

I don’t mind clients calling me out of hours, but I get the feeling he is going to irritate me again!