Experts Guide to Flushing Your Web Design Budget Down the Toilet
How to flush your website budget down the toilet
Aug 21, 2014
We really do love our clients, but some of the things they do to shoot themselves in the foot are amusing…if not predictable.
We've been designing business websites since 1999, and we've learned a thing or two about what to expect from our otherwise well intentioned clientele.
Now we’re not above sarcasm, so we put together this expert’s guide detailing how a business owner can be their own worst enemy and effectively flush their website budget down the commode.(Or at least cause some delays).
Why would a guide detailing how to obstruct, delay and degrade website development be necessary when it appears to come so naturally? Well, it’s not. We just thought it would be entertaining, so we rehashed all the things we've seen actual clients do that really hinder their own projects and had some fun with it.
Did we leave anything out? Let me know....
www.KreativeWebworks.com
We've been designing business websites since 1999, and we've learned a thing or two about what to expect from our otherwise well intentioned clientele.
Now we’re not above sarcasm, so we put together this expert’s guide detailing how a business owner can be their own worst enemy and effectively flush their website budget down the commode.(Or at least cause some delays).
Why would a guide detailing how to obstruct, delay and degrade website development be necessary when it appears to come so naturally? Well, it’s not. We just thought it would be entertaining, so we rehashed all the things we've seen actual clients do that really hinder their own projects and had some fun with it.
Did we leave anything out? Let me know....
www.KreativeWebworks.com
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Experts Guide to Flushing Your Web Design Budget Down the Toilet
A Sarcastic Collection of Tips & Tricks to ensure
you get something you don’t
want that is consistently
Behind schedule.
After all, if you won’t like it, what’s the hurry?
A Sarcastic Collection of Tips & Tricks to ensure
you get something you don’t
want that is consistently
Behind schedule.
Put it on auto pilot!
Put it on auto pilot!
Even the best design firms can’t work in a vacuum. If you’re looking to shed some of that unwanted cash, go ahead and take advantage of their telepathic powers and let them do all your thinking for you.
Lesson #1
Put it on auto pilot!
Even the best design firms can’t work in a vacuum. If you’re looking to shed some of that unwanted cash, go ahead and take advantage of their telepathic powers and let them do all your thinking for you.
PRO TIP: Tell them whatever they do will be fine…they’re the professionals. Then critique them mercilessly when they don’t read your mind.
Lesson #1
Don’t spoil your development team by immediately responding to their questions or supplying thoughtful feedback. That way you can avoid becoming their number one priority.
Never respond right away!
Don’t spoil your development team by immediately responding to their questions or supplying thoughtful feedback. That way you can avoid becoming their number one priority.
Never respond right away!
PRO TIP: Make sure you tease them a bit by only addressing part of their request.
Don’t Test it YourselfWhy should you? After all, they’re the professionals. And given the industry requirement for telepathy, you can be assured that everything will work just like it did in your head.
Don’t Test it YourselfWhy should you? After all, they’re the professionals. And given the industry requirement for telepathy, you can be assured that everything will work just like it did in your head.
PRO TIP: Not testing a website before launching it is particularly effective with government Health Care projects.
Everyone has an opinion, and even if they don’t, they’ll chime in so that everyone thinks they have an opinion.
Management by Committee
Everyone has an opinion, and even if they don’t, they’ll chime in so that everyone thinks they have an opinion.
Take advantage of this phenomenon by making sure that everyone has a little piece of themselves in the final project.
Management by Committee
Management by Committee Everyone has an opinion, and even if they don’t, they’ll chime in so that everyone thinks they have an opinion.
Take advantage of this phenomenon by making sure that everyone has a little piece of themselves in the final project.
Remember… a Camel is really just a Horse built by committee. And after all, isn’t a camel more interesting?
Trickle your changes in one at a time
You wouldn’t want to overwhelm your design team by letting them organize the project all at once. This way they can have 10 or 20 miniature projects to manage instead of just one.
Do it Yourself!
Do it Yourself!
After all, you have plenty of time to learn about marketing, design and coding. What do you think all those “Dummies” books are for?
Everyone loves that “homemade” look, and in just a few short months…Presto!
Use the Cheapest Technology Available
Don’t offend your customers with one of those fancy “user friendly” websites that scream “Look at me… I take my company seriously”. And what better way to showcase your thriftiness than to cut corners on the company website?
Delegate it to an intern
Why not let the 22 year old kid with no business experience do it?
After all, he’s good at Twitter, he must be good at business
websites.
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Make it clear you have no budget
Nothing incentivizes web developers to do their best work like dropping subtle hints about your willingness to make your website a low priority in your business.
Make it clear you have no budget
Nothing incentivizes web developers to do their best work like dropping subtle hints about your willingness to make your website a low priority in your business.
PRO TIP: Never tell them your true budget so they will magically give you more than they think you have to invest.
Squeeze 10 pounds of Crap into a 5 pound Bag!People like to look at things, so take the opportunity to jam-pack each page full of visually stimulating eye candy. That way they will appreciate what they are looking for if they ever find it.
Skip that Search Engine stuffWait until after the website has been built to start thinking about how your customers are
going to find you.
Pro Tip: Demand the most
convoluted navigation and code heavy features
possible to thoroughly confuse the search engines.
Skip that Search Engine stuffWait until after the website has been built to start thinking about how your customers are
going to find you.
Ignore Mobile!
Why not cram your entire website onto a viewing area the size of a postage stamp?
Ignore Mobile!
PRO TIP: Make sure the navigation buttons are
smaller than your fingertips so your customers can’t click on what they were
aiming for.
Why not cram your entire website onto a viewing area the size of a postage stamp?
Just throw something up there for now.
Just throw something up there for now. Nothing conveys attention to detail like a placeholder for a website. That way your customers will assume that you are spending your time on them and not pesky details like your company image.
Just throw something up there for now. Nothing conveys attention to detail like a placeholder for a website. That way your customers will assume that you are spending your time on them and not pesky details like your company image.
“If you don’t have time to do it right… you’ll probably have plenty of time to do it over”
Make sure that your development team knows that you know how easy it
is. That way you can trivialize their knowledge
and be assured of their best effort.
Assume it’s Easy!
Choose your developer based solely on price
All websites are the same, so they should all cost the same. After all, all cars are equal and they all cost the same…right?
It’s all about you!
Above all, make sure that your website is all about you and not your customers.
It’s all about you!
Above all, make sure that your website is all about you and not your customers.
If they want a website that works for them, they can go to your competitors. This one is yours…
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