How Hard is That?
Ugh! This question drives me mad!
Every web design client asks it. It usually goes something like this:
“I want to add a shopping cart to my website. How hard is that to do?”
or
“I’d like a rotating flash animation that changes based on local weather patterns. That’s not too hard is it?”
Does difficulty matter?
Of course not.
I’m still going to charge for it. It must be hard enough for you to hire someone to do it, otherwise you’d do it yourself!
Nothing in web design is hard to do. Everything in web design is hard to do. This question has no meaning to me.
I think many clients have the assumption that if a website is really easy to use, then it must be easy to build. It’s often quite the contrary. Delivering smooth funtionality that’s easy to use is usually a tremendous challenge.
Meeting challenges and working out solutions is what web designers do.
That’s not hard.
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