Move It, Buster!
And I mean, really slow. I lost another client today to the need for them to be able to modify the site themselves without my intervention (read, charging them for my services). Whoa! That’s what WordPress does. It puts the power of the content into the hands of the average user. But this came as a great shock to me, because I had no warning they were not satisfied with the site. For many years I had maintained the site; that is, when the yearly renewal for web hosting came around I sent them an invoice. Everytime I asked them about updating the site, they always said they were working on new products to show. Never got back with me, never said anything. So now they are gone. I wish them great luck, because they in all likelihood will not find anyone who works as hard as I do, nor as inexpensively.
On other notes, I have been working on the Eagle Pass Chamber of Commerce conversion site and it’s coming along quite well. After many tries with different WordPress themes, I think I finally have the one that will work the best and have the kind of look the Chamber is wanting. I hope so. Now all I need are photos and we’re on our way.
BlueAirMan is stalled; that client just doesn’t have the time to put together the products he wants to sell on the site. Too bad, he could be making money right now.
My final client, Madexalli, is also not providing me with the information I need to fully flesh out her site. I wonder if all web developers have such balky clients? I’m sure they don’t; they probably have clients that want impossible features by the next time. I’ll take the balk over the hair-pulling anyday.
Finally, I am seriously thinking about converting my Candles for Life site over to WordPress using an excellent multi-lingual plugin I found (although I can’t remember the name of it offhand). It will be a heck of a lot easier to maintain and to add pages to. At present, with CodeIgniter and the plugin I’m using to the do the translating, it is a serious job to make changes to any of the pages. Work better, not harder. That’s the ticket!
