So am I actually. It went from
Client - "I don't care much about the design, I just want something unique and professional that I can market"..(so I did exactly that)
to
Client - "Oh, well that's kind of like the site I already have.
Me - oh you mean the free register.com site designer piece of shit you used to make the site yourself 6 years ago?
Client - " and I want to have a site that's like no other site anyone has ever seen..ever. So maybe you can go back to the drawing board and give me a few more design options to choose from".
Me - FML
Lol, very similar then.
Them: "We don't really know what colors we want. Maybe something like our business card - we have a few different versions."
Me: "Here ya go. I tried all, and this is the only decent layout I could come up with. Let me know what you like and don't like about it and we'll go from there."
Them: "That's a good start."
Me: "So you like it?"
Them: "Yes"
Me a month later when I need the content and have coded the site: "So, if you give me the content I can launch your site."
Them: "Oh, is that it? We were wanting more designs."
Me: "Okay, you said you were fine with it, but what are you looking for?"
Them: "We don't know... do you have a color pallet?"
Me: "Okay, how about this. You have Photoshop, how about I send you the layout and you send it back to me after you change the colors?"
Them: "Okay, here's what we want."
Me staring at my E-mail: "Oh.... fuck... is that a blue gradient and lens flare? No... who would do that with lime green on a black background?"
So, I stop by there office with my laptop just to make sure.
Me: Is this what you sent me? I know you were using an old version of Photoshop, I just wanted to make sure."
Them: "Yes, we really don't know what we want."
So, I change it to exactly what they said they want and left. Sliced it up.
Later in the week...
Them: "Did you get my E-mail two days ago?"
Me: "No, what did you want?"
Them: "We wanted to change the layout again to be something like..."
Them: "We like this site's colors."
Me: "Okay, but that site's colors are hideous and only work because of the amount of content they have on the page breaking it up. Yours doesn't have that."
Them: "We want mountains in the background like that and like those colors."
Me: "Okay, I can do it, but it'll add XXX to the cost of the project since I've already spent 3x more hours on layout changes than I quoted for the entire scope of the project."
Them: "Okay, let me call my husband and see what he thinks."
Shortly after, I'm cursed out on the phone by the husband for charging for stuff I
supposedly was suppose to offer two months prior with the original layout.
Needless to say, I got them to pay for the changes, they still didn't know what they want, but got their mountains and a better looking layout after 10+ more hours of work.
Now, 3 months later I still don't have the 5 paragraphs of content to launch their site.
