A client recently came to us asking us to evaluate a website they contracted a major US company to build, close to $100k in costs.
It was built on WordPress but 95% of it couldn’t be edited, even the images were hard coded. From my review I could see they had farmed it out to a small firm in another country who had given it to junior developers. They had paid up front, and are now looking to recoup these costs.
It was the worst code I’ve ever seen, absolutely shocking - it was literally like they were learning PHP and coding while building it. Took over a year to build and was nowhere near finished.
In the end we restarted it from scratch, had it built properly and everything editable at a cost of £30k. Client was over the moon. We wouldn’t have charged as much normally, but it was a race to get it finished ready for an event so we had to put major hours in.
Sometimes I wonder whether we charge too little.
Myself and my business partner so a lot of work for other agencies as a white label, so we liaise direct with their clients as part of their agency.
It’s good that we have big projects given to us to deal with, but they are not our clients so we can’t advertise the fact that we’ve worked with major clients.
A client recently came to us asking us to evaluate a website they contracted a major US company to build, close to $100k in costs.
It was built on WordPress but 95% of it couldn’t be edited, even the images were hard coded. From my review I could see they had farmed it out to a small firm in another country who had given it to junior developers. They had paid up front, and are now looking to recoup these costs.
It was the worst code I’ve ever seen, absolutely shocking - it was literally like they were learning PHP and coding while building it. Took over a year to build and was nowhere near finished.
In the end we restarted it from scratch, had it built properly and everything editable at a cost of £30k. Client was over the moon. We wouldn’t have charged as much normally, but it was a race to get it finished ready for an event so we had to put major hours in.
Sometimes I wonder whether we charge too little.
Myself and my business partner so a lot of work for other agencies as a white label, so we liaise direct with their clients as part of their agency.
It’s good that we have big projects given to us to deal with, but they are not our clients so we can’t advertise the fact that we’ve worked with major clients.