That isn't a serious question, by the way, it's supposed to be sarcastic.
Do you know what I'm doing today? The grumpy old woman has ranted often enough about getting the blueprint 100% correct before the website has been built, right? Well, in the case I'm ranting about today, the blueprint was signed off. The design was signed off. The top level of the site was built.
The client then decided that, although they had signed off on the design, it wasn't the design they wanted. (Of the two that they had short-listed). So we rebuilt the site in the other design.
Still not happy, the client called a summit meeting. I wasn't there (luckily, I would have more than likely hit someone) but it turns out that they wanted the original design. So we are having to build to top level of the website again. Ho hum.
Those of you who understand the complexity of building a website will understand that this is bad enough. But hold on, worse is yet to come.
The client supplied a loose-leaf folder. In that folder are mockups of every single page of the website, exactly was they want it; complete with printed-out photographs, text and their version of the navigation - all collaged together like a school project.
Needless to say, the copy isn't the same as that on the blueprint. Needless to say, our design called for the images to be square and the school project has a mix of square, horizontal and vertical images. (Some, and this is even worse, are just a few pixels away from being square). Needless to say, the typed-in navigation is different on many pages. Needless to say, the images which have been supplied on a CD are named with useful clues such as DCS000678234gx12.jpg. And it almost goes without saying that the photographs supplied are a mix of horizontal and vertical and, in most cases, are completely the opposite orientation to the way they are shown on the school project.
One exciting thing which I've yet to deal with is that each image has a word or two of descriptive text on the image. Of course, some images are on white, some on darker colors. So the school project shows the descriptive word in white on some of them and in black on others.
And let's not forget that the school project is on letter-size paper. Since when has a webpage been letter-size? It pays no attention whatsoever to the cell structure of the page. It is going to look horrible. Well, not horrible because we are making the best of a bad job, but it certainly won't be TSDG standard.
Oh, and let's not forget that they want it done yesterday.
What we will have here is a website 'designed' on paper by people who have no idea about websites. You can imagine what fun I'm having.
No, this site will not go into our portfolio. I am creating a website under extreme direction from people who don't know what they are doing. Lovely.
Hence the picture of the sheep.
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