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"She said my estimate was wrong, because she saw an article on creating
a blog in 30 minutes."<br>
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Tell her to hire someone else that can do it in 30 minutes. And, that
if she changes her mind, you will still do it for the same price.<br>
<br>
When clients come to me that way, I already know I probably don't want
to do business with them. Chances are, she doesn't care about the
quality or that you are doing the changes the right way - the Drupal
way. As I am sure many of us have seen examples, Drupal newbies offer
low prices but come in and chop up Drupal core and / or template files
- instead of learning how to do it the Drupal way.<br>
<br>
If she doesn't value this, then she probably won't ever do it. If she
is patient, try to explain what is really involved and see what she
thinks about the 30 minutes then... Chances are if she called around,
to get a bid for this exact need, most people wouldn't do it work. I
know I wouldn't (not for 30 or 3 hours) - unless I had a prior
relationship and know she won't scope creep or keep expecting more for
the same price.<br>
<br>
Good luck<br>
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Ayen Designs wrote:
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<pre wrap="">so, I have a client using blog/blog_api. She complains because of the
blog naming, the breadcrumb, the naming of the remotely submitted blog
article, the url, and more. String_override doesn't work with the blog
name. So I told her that if we set it up as a custom content type
instead of using blog, there's a log more I could do. I estimated 3
hours to change over everything, create the view, test all the
page/url/article/breadcrumb naming, etc. She said my estimate was wrong,
because she saw an article on creating a blog in 30 minutes. I need to
find a way to make money developing with clients!!!!
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