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Opinion Requested: Who's Task Is It? The Clients or You?
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| When discussing procedure with a client about a new website job, who's
responsible for creating the initial site outline? Would it be the
designer, or the client?
FYI: A site outline summarizes all the pages of the site. It allows
the designer to understand the scope of the job.
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| David Dorward 2006-09-24, 6:58 pm |
| Fred wrote:
> When discussing procedure with a client about a new website job, who's
> responsible for creating the initial site outline? Would it be the
> designer, or the client?
That depends. If they know what they want, then they can present it to
you as part of the requirements for the project. If they don't know,
then you can charge them for developing one.
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| Phil Payne 2006-09-24, 6:58 pm |
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Fred wrote:
> When discussing procedure with a client about a new website job, who's
> responsible for creating the initial site outline? Would it be the
> designer, or the client?
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> FYI: A site outline summarizes all the pages of the site. It allows
> the designer to understand the scope of the job.
I can't see any other way to do it than jointly. If I can meet a
client face-to-face, I use an A3 artist's pad and a 2B propelling
pencil - I'm there to tell him what navigational structure makes sense
and what works well with the SEs - he/she's there to how they want the
business flow to work.
Otherwise I tnd to build a very primitive dummy site using relative
addressing that I can email out - unzipped the client can see how the
navigation would work and comment further. I'm very loathe to invest
time in a design and have the client reject it.
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| Karl Groves 2006-09-24, 6:58 pm |
| Fred <x@x.com> wrote in news:dtgtg25q7nb31vtpvskk778c01n51jklfv@4ax.com:
> When discussing procedure with a client about a new website job, who's
> responsible for creating the initial site outline? Would it be the
> designer, or the client?
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> FYI: A site outline summarizes all the pages of the site. It allows
> the designer to understand the scope of the job.
>
It is the client's job to create a wishlist of features (with the
assistance of the designer)
It is the designer's job to organize that wishlist into a sensible
structure (with the assistance of the client)
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Karl Groves
www.karlcore.com
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