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Originally Posted by squizzel
you said some good info but im not clueless. i laid out a clear spec of what i needed done and he agreed to it, everything that was needed to be done was in writing.
Jaysin doesnt have the skills to do the project and intentionally screwed me over and has no intention of giving my money back. I highly doubt he even wrote 1 line of code.
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Clear specs in the eyes of the client are rarely clear in the eyes of a developer. Send me a copy of your specs and I'll grade them if you want
But I have rarely found a client that could clearly identify what they really wanted right up front.
To do any project with complexity properly takes a lot of time in the design phase, fleshing out exactly what it is that the client wants.
The standard design process doesn't get any code written for quite a while into the process something that most clients in this biz do not want to put up with and do not understand.
My standard contract calls for a 3 payment plan. 1/3 up front. When the design specs are completed and the design is agreed upon, the client can either stay with me or take the design to another shop. If they stay with me then we get the next 1/3 and we lay out the actual timeline for the project, always with a disclaimer that any timeline is purely an estimate and that it can change significantly throughout the coding phase dependent on availability, client spec changes, etc. Once the coding is complete, again the client can choose to stay with me or they can take the code someplace else for beta and live implementation. If they stay with me then they pay the final 1/3 and we put it in place.
That methodology almost always guarantees a happy client and a less frustrated developer. It takes realities into account and it guarantees communication along the way.
Most stuff in the adult interweb is developed in the "down and dirty, flying by the seat of my pants" methodology where the client wants this now and as you work on the project, scope creep guarantees an out of control situationa nd greatly increases the probability that the client will not be happy and the developer will reconsider taking on any more projects.
Just my
