Another apology is in order. I have neglected this Blog for some time since starting my new job, and as I am working a solid 6 days a week at around 10 hours a day with one day left to spend with my family/girlfriend I have become somewhat occupied with work. Hopefully when I go back to university this will change and there will be far more entries in this Blog. I have the ideas, just not the time.

Whenever Web Developers feel the need to say something negative we tend to be very inhibited within what we actually mean. There comes a time for many Web Developers when we’ll work with a client with a designer that couldn’t operate a graphics program if his/her life depended on it. These are the kind of people that spend hours a day working on animated pictures for their clients’ website to make it ’stand out from the crowd’. These are also the people that think the W3C is some kind of sports competition. We all know them, and they’re everywhere.

If you were given a design to work with, and it was awful, what would you tell the client?

This client of yours has obviously spent a reasonable amount of money for the services of this designer, and have gained a design that is so bad it’ll ruin any work you could possibly accomplish. Not only that, but it’ll reflect on your portfolio when this design is shown as the visible medium of your work. It’s for this reason that I think all Developers should really go to town on the Designers they work for.

So many Developers are willing to let a client sit there believing that they are getting top-quality design work when the design they have received is so poor most people wouldn’t even spend a couple of dollars on it. I think that it is the duty of anyone involved on the project to voice their concerns, and that should at least start with you.

So your client may end up annoyed, who cares? Whereas some clients might get annoyed at your claim that the design they have paid for isn’t very good there will be one client that’ll admire your courage and honesty, and that client will be worth more to you than the other clients put together.