Today we met with two new webdevelopers and when we came out at the end of the day we both felt sick. On face value we seemed to have been taken advantage of. We couldn’t understand how 2 professional women could have got into this predicament. Things we learnt
- The majority of the frustrations we had found could have been prevented with a good content management system. All webdesigners seem to have one and provide access to this as soon as the site development starts for you to load up your content and manage it .
- We were paying way too much and the timeframe had been way too long
- Our site should have been an 8 week and 25K project like was budgeted
- The site we currently had with no ability to edit content and access to the backend was completely unacceptable ( people actually laughed at our situation – we take comfort they were laughing with us and not at us)
We have now had confirmed what we had thought for a few months – all was not well and we have not been unrealistic in our requests or timing.. so we need to start negotiating our way out what would seem to be a really big mess. At the end of the day we just couldn’t believe that this was happening to us…. surely this only happens to other people
