When your layout is being vandalized by your boss/client
Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:20 am
My boss many times asks for nicer, cleaner, modern web layouts to match those of competitive sites and also a simple way to update them. That means a nice xhtml-js-css-driven layout with a php/sql backend.
Problem is, he can't understand that when you make a modern dynamic site, it needs to be designed, categorized, planned intensely before starting to make the site and cms.
The site will often be vandalized by something new he might see in a competitor's site, problem is that he wants me to add those features AFTER the whole job is done. We also have a terrible server and like 5GB bandwidth traffic each day!
And I've been asked to add server intensive apps like chat! Of course I explained the problem but after he saw the problem himself believed me.
The main problem though it's the ads. He has many advertisers, but more just keep coming although he knows we have no space for them. I suggested a way to display half of the ads, random based so the layout won't have any problems. Even add some popup-based divs.
He says he wants them as banners to always show up. Now the design looks terrible, like a big ad portal. There are places that the wrapper div stretches aaaall the way down to the bottom full with ads, although no one will ever scroll to see them. He seems to not care as long as money gets into his pocket, but I am really ashamed to show that website to someone who wants to see my work.
How you deal with this situation?
Problem is, he can't understand that when you make a modern dynamic site, it needs to be designed, categorized, planned intensely before starting to make the site and cms.
The site will often be vandalized by something new he might see in a competitor's site, problem is that he wants me to add those features AFTER the whole job is done. We also have a terrible server and like 5GB bandwidth traffic each day!
The main problem though it's the ads. He has many advertisers, but more just keep coming although he knows we have no space for them. I suggested a way to display half of the ads, random based so the layout won't have any problems. Even add some popup-based divs.
He says he wants them as banners to always show up. Now the design looks terrible, like a big ad portal. There are places that the wrapper div stretches aaaall the way down to the bottom full with ads, although no one will ever scroll to see them. He seems to not care as long as money gets into his pocket, but I am really ashamed to show that website to someone who wants to see my work.
How you deal with this situation?