Tuesday, 5 February 2008

Property Website

This one wasn't a long lived customer! Quite an involved site and for a very good price (for him). I have noticed during my years of web design that those customers that pay the least expect the most - this one held that true.

There were loads of contact forms (used as surveys) on the site, with different questions dropping in and out of the screen depending on previous answers. It was a nightmare to code and even worse to test. There was always a question appearing when it shouldn't do, or one not appearing when it should.

When it came to the renewal time a year later he told me my charges were far too high and wanted to host the site himself. But he never came back asking for the code to host the site - I expect he realised that my charges were actually cheaper than anything he could get himself.

At least the site was more work and experience and another for the portfolio when we were just startign up and a little bit quiet.

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