I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
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After the events of this week, I remember now why I was always hesitant about working for myself: stability. It started on Sunday, where the person I was rebuilding a massive website (800+ pages) for decided he "couldn't afford it" and canceled the whole thing. All the time I spent (including 7 hours straight on Sunday...I was in the zone) went wasted. To say I was disappointed would be an understatement. Here's a brief rundown of how it went:
Him: I can't do the site anymore. People owe me money, I am still paying for someone to build the ecommerce store, blah blah blah. Also, your proposed setup (using a site structure) is too detailed. I'm not a "path" person.
Me: I understand. Money's tight for everyone.
Him: I still need you to set up my Dreamweaver installation so I can edit the site myself
Me: I've done that already. The problem is your code has no standard structure to it. Your code needs to be set to point to the location of the image.
Him: I CAN SEE THE FILE ON MY MACHINE! WHY WON'T DREAMWEAVER WORK!!! (He's now very upset)
Me: Because your server files are a mess. And you code looks like someone ate a website, partially digested it, then vomited the code back on to the page.
Him: I'M NOT A PATH PERSON!
Me: That may be, but servers and HTML code depend on them. I can make Dreamweaver upload the files to Burt Reynold's personal website if I wanted to, but that won't matter because you don't know what the hell you're doing. I can't make Dreamweaver adjust to your inability to understand and use basic syntax.
And that was that. I don't think he'll be calling me anytime soon.
Then this week came. I feel like I've been kicking water uphill all week. Tomorrow is Friday, and I'm not sure what I've even done this week. Stressful, putting out fires left and right, and dealing with people who are downright idiots.
But the difference between this and the a**hole who canceled on me? I'm still getting paid for this week. And that's enough to make me feel good.
On a side note, I had to change my blog email address, because I was getting destroyed by spam so much it was crippling my server (150+ spam attempts a day). But I've got a Gmail address for it now (let THEM handle it) and I've integrated an easy code trick to stop 99% of the spam bots getting my address. Feel free to email me and I'll give you the syntax for it. I also still haven't quite figured out the comment situation. So there.
Him: I can't do the site anymore. People owe me money, I am still paying for someone to build the ecommerce store, blah blah blah. Also, your proposed setup (using a site structure) is too detailed. I'm not a "path" person.
Me: I understand. Money's tight for everyone.
Him: I still need you to set up my Dreamweaver installation so I can edit the site myself
Me: I've done that already. The problem is your code has no standard structure to it. Your code needs to be set to point to the location of the image.
Him: I CAN SEE THE FILE ON MY MACHINE! WHY WON'T DREAMWEAVER WORK!!! (He's now very upset)
Me: Because your server files are a mess. And you code looks like someone ate a website, partially digested it, then vomited the code back on to the page.
Him: I'M NOT A PATH PERSON!
Me: That may be, but servers and HTML code depend on them. I can make Dreamweaver upload the files to Burt Reynold's personal website if I wanted to, but that won't matter because you don't know what the hell you're doing. I can't make Dreamweaver adjust to your inability to understand and use basic syntax.
And that was that. I don't think he'll be calling me anytime soon.
Then this week came. I feel like I've been kicking water uphill all week. Tomorrow is Friday, and I'm not sure what I've even done this week. Stressful, putting out fires left and right, and dealing with people who are downright idiots.
But the difference between this and the a**hole who canceled on me? I'm still getting paid for this week. And that's enough to make me feel good.
On a side note, I had to change my blog email address, because I was getting destroyed by spam so much it was crippling my server (150+ spam attempts a day). But I've got a Gmail address for it now (let THEM handle it) and I've integrated an easy code trick to stop 99% of the spam bots getting my address. Feel free to email me and I'll give you the syntax for it. I also still haven't quite figured out the comment situation. So there.
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question: doncha find bitching about clients on the internet a little risque?
possibly, but (a) the guy is an idiot and doesn't even know this exists, and (b) people like that deserve to be ridiculed. I have no problem with people who aren't tech-savvy, however, I don't like people that assume that all technology should work how THEY want it to.