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Originally Posted by Bman
Thats what corporate people want. Just went through this with a customer. Access to a ton of super creative designers in the end they wanted corporate and simple.  |
sometimes, not necessarily. One of our main clients is a marketing firm with hundreds of clients and we presented them with great looking sites and they wanted something more simple and boring in the belief simple and boring means business. We always insisted with something better, and after a somehow lengthy process, now they won't accept something like they requested a couple years ago and always request us to raise the bar even further. The last site we did for them is a cutting edge one to replace the crap they had, made by a cheap designer AFTER we provided them with a great design with lots of functionality and custom features. So you gotta educate clients.
On the WP subject, while the OP is clearly exaggerating, yes, we had mainstream clients that barely knows how to turn on the computer, just last month we had a client yelling because we didn't deliver some stationery, which we did several times wondering what was going on. After a couple weeks, I found out she didn't know how to open a zip file.
This being said, can't even imagine how editing some html or even worse, PHP files will be easier for a client than writing in a MS Word-like window. As a matter of fact, we offer all our clients WP just so they can add content easily