Comments on: Avoid being ripped off over web services http://www.transparent-realestate.com/blog/uncategorized/avoid-being-ripped-off-over-web-services/23 Information, thoughts, and ideas on Transparent Technologies' real estate software and real estate technology in general Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:37:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Judson http://www.transparent-realestate.com/blog/uncategorized/avoid-being-ripped-off-over-web-services/23/comment-page-1#comment-19 Judson Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:58:01 +0000 http://www.transparent-realestate.com/blog/?p=23#comment-19 Hi Ryan, just thought I would try to be active in the blog. I too have ran across clients that got in with the wrong development company, and also had to deal with clients that want the sky, on a shoe string budget... what they call a "champagne taste on beer budget". We get inquiries ALL the time for low budget websites, and being a freelancer it is hard to turn away work, in doing so you have to cut corners where you can. This usually translates into things like not spending alot of time validating on every browser, or even more than the most commonly used one, not validating in XHTML.. those extra things that take time. Also, one of the hardest things to get a client to do is submit content. Typically they either want me to create it or take forever to get it submitted. The former is just a bad idea... having someone else create content describing your company (without out any input from you) is just bad practice. So, as a thought when approaching a Web Design/Development company... 1) Make sure you have your content (or at the very least a general idea to work with) ready beforehand. 2) Make sure to set a reasonable budget for your project. And whether you get a really good deal or not, shop around. If one offer comes in really low, then you may end up getting stuck with a site that is not optimized for Search Engines, validated in the major browsers, etc. Hi Ryan, just thought I would try to be active in the blog. I too have ran across clients that got in with the wrong development company, and also had to deal with clients that want the sky, on a shoe string budget… what they call a “champagne taste on beer budget”. We get inquiries ALL the time for low budget websites, and being a freelancer it is hard to turn away work, in doing so you have to cut corners where you can. This usually translates into things like not spending alot of time validating on every browser, or even more than the most commonly used one, not validating in XHTML.. those extra things that take time.

Also, one of the hardest things to get a client to do is submit content. Typically they either want me to create it or take forever to get it submitted. The former is just a bad idea… having someone else create content describing your company (without out any input from you) is just bad practice.

So, as a thought when approaching a Web Design/Development company… 1) Make sure you have your content (or at the very least a general idea to work with) ready beforehand. 2) Make sure to set a reasonable budget for your project. And whether you get a really good deal or not, shop around. If one offer comes in really low, then you may end up getting stuck with a site that is not optimized for Search Engines, validated in the major browsers, etc.

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