Worst Ever Client?

The personal webspace of James Dunn

I do a fair amount of freelance design work, and I often find that projects are delayed by clients that are indecisive, take too long producing page content, and have suddenly changed their mind without warning. My latest project involved the worst client that I've ever had to work with...

Introducing the New JD-Works Site

Over the past month I've been redeveloping this site to try and show off more of my skills as a designer. It has literally taken me ages as I've been through about six different design concepts, even taking some to the build stage before scrapping the idea completely. I've also been indecisive about what content I want keep - looking at what has worked well in the past and what needs to be changed has taken longer than I expected. Plus the project always gets sidelined when I have other client work to do.

However, the resulting website is one of the first designs I've managed to work with for over a month, and not tear up. This has fortunately been enough time to get it to the state it's in now. Here are some of the new/updated features:

Restyled Blog

I've now upgraded to Movable Type 4 which has forced me to refresh all of my blog templates, and update them to take advantage of the new features available. Some of these improvements include integration of 'Captcha' verification on comment entry pages, which should help to prevent spam commenting. This has also allowed me to reopen commenting for all of my backdated articles.

New Photo Section

In conjunction with Ben Abbott I have developed a new photograph gallery system that takes its data directly from Flickr. Developed using FlickrHelpr, JD-Works now imports all of my photo sets directly and displays them in appropriate categories. The whole system requires virtually no maintenance and creating new galleries is simply a drag and drop procedure.

New Portfolio

My portfolio has had an overhaul and I've added lots of new projects that I've been working on recently, as well as some employment and qualifications information.

I will be trying to update the blog more frequently as I notice that my last entry was over six months ago, but in the meantime please feel free to take a look around.

Posted on November 05, 2007 15:30 | Add Comment →