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I am in the advent of finishing NGO website and we are discussing about teaching them how to update/create web resources, like adding new pages, updating news, uploading photos for gallery. Is that okay? They said that they are willing to learn stuffs and do it by themselves. Most of them are 40's up. How am I going to convince them that they really have to hire a web manager.
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You might show them what happens to a web page when a key HTML closing tag is missing, or a snippet tag with many properties is missing its question mark, or a modx tag is missing a square bracket (e.g. Wayfinder), or a chunk or snippet name is misspelled, or the base href tag is incorrect, etc.
Show them the page, let them see you make the tiny change, and show it again.
If you spend a little time, you could come up with some spectacular examples.
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Hmm. I'll give it shot. What are the common options should we give them just in case they find it hard to learn.
I'm thinking of they will just pay me whenever they have something to put into their website. But what is the scope? coding, graphics? this is my first time developing a paid website.
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It's a learning process, and I don't claim to be an expert at it (I almost always underestimate the time it will take me to do something). Here's a good place to start (once you get past the annoying intro):
http://vimeo.com/22053820.
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Hahaha like the title. THank you sir bob. Hope to hear the experience from other designers.
Contracts are all well and good as long as you don't work where corruption and connections overrule the rule of law. I've even had bank escrow accounts not work because the client had contacts at the bank.
I rarely work for local clients, and I've learned to more carefully judge my clients before agreeing to work for them. If I'm not completely sure that I can trust the client and I work on a single-payment basis I get the payment up front. If I work on an hourly basis I invoice after an agreed-upon number of hours and wait until the invoice is paid before I continue. If they don't like it, they can find somebody else to rip off.
The MODX Cloud is really helpful, because I can design the site there, and not move it to the client's hosting until they pay me.
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Sweet. Great thoughts. Thanks for the response. Now I'm learning.
In my case,they want me to make two diff websites (the same company but diff brand), and I agreed that they can get the other website in half of my price. The mode of payment is like they will give me the half payment of the first website then when the tutorial thing is done they will give the remaining. I haven't started yet their second website (half priced).
I kinda find it hard to teach them how to use it. Is this one of the first timer dilemma?
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Thank you for your advises. I'm taking notes. Never had the idea of the after launch support, thank you.
I'm using bootstrap, am I supposed to teach them HTML and CSS? seems more things to do.