April 2010
2 posts
clientsfromhell:
Client: “Make the numbers in our phone number capitalized to stand out more”
Me: “That’s not possible…”
Client: “Just hold the SHIFT key and type our phone number!”
March 2010
3 posts
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February 2010
10 posts
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clientsfromhell:
Client: “The blue isn’t right.”
Me: “What PMS color are we trying to match?”
Client: “Oh, you know, the color of the Texas sky around daybreak.”
clientsfromhell:
Client: “We’re trying to watch the DVD with the advert on but we can’t hear it. We’re really not happy. You need to bring a new DVD over asap.”
Me: “What are you playing the DVD on?”
Client: “My receptionist’s computer.”
Me: “Does it have speakers?”
Client: “No, will you send some over?”
Me: “No.”
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“If you’re going to charge me 40$ an hour to make my website I would like to...”
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iconPot - totally free icons →
themeforest:
iconPot is a great source of free icons.
What is iconPot The aim of this site is simple. We list a whole bunch of icons which are all great to use for your web development projects. But we are different to other icon-related websites because we only list icons which you can use for free on personal AND commercial projects AND without having to provide back-links/credit to the...
clientsfromhell:
Client: “We want a no-right-click script so people, by which we mean paedophiles, can’t save pictures from our custom gallery of kids.”
Me: “But the gallery has an ‘email me this picture’ form.”
Client : “That’s for parents.”
January 2010
18 posts
clientsfromhell:
Client: “The other day I saw on this website that whenever a mouse pointer moved a word followed it. And they would spin and blast out and come back.”
Me: “Yeah…those were popular in the late 90’s.”
Client: “Can you do that with our mission statement?”
Me: “You mean, like the full paragraph blasting around the site whenever the browser would move his mouse?”
Client: “Yeah,...
“Hi could you please fix my website so that people in Canada can’t see it? It...”
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We all know that Twitter brings you all the resources, news, tutorials and even more great stuff right on top of your desktop or mobile but sometimes you can’t read it all …
“Can you make the photo taller? Don’t worry if it stretches, I don’t think...”
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20 Writing Mistakes that Make Any Freelancer Look... →
“Hi. Yeah. We had our site built in India. Right. It is not working now. We are...”
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clientsfromhell:
After having delivered an eCommerce site to a client, he called me on the phone, explaining that he had experienced some problems ordering products. While on the phone, I explained to him that I would do a test order to see if I could reconstruct the problem he experienced. The ordering went fine, but suddenly he says
Client: “Wow, I got an order from you here. You want that...
Beautiful Helvetica Inspired Artworks (Fanart,... →
A nice set of inspiration with the use of the marvelous typeface Helvetica
Design a clean business layout in Photoshop →
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Design Trends (Predictions) in 2010 →
A prediction of the design trends of 2010, look promising.
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
– Steve Jobs (1955 - )
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30 Websites with Lovely Layout and Typography →
A nice collection of interesting websites with excellent use of typography.
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An Awesome Collection of Logo Inspiration. →