There's nothing like customers leaving everything to the last minute! We started working on a site in early March - 2 and a half months ago. The design really dragged on. Nothing was heard back for weeks, then a few little changes requested, then suddenly about 2 weeks ago a major restyling of the site was requested.
Not brilliant, but OK if there's time. The problem was when about a week ago the customer annouced that the site must be live for this Wednesday.
You would think that in this case all the stop would be pulled out on both sides. I'm here now, Sunday afternoon, to get the site pushed through a little. But all week there's been a huge list of little tweaks that the customer wants. Never anything too major and nothing that affects the style to make it that much better for visitors. Only (to be honest) the customer trying to style himself more on a big name site and wanting everything to match.
So here we are, with just 2 working days to get the site live. At this point in the project, especially after 2 and a half months' work, you would expect to find us well into the build. But with only 2 days to go until he is desperate to go live, and with threats about what will happen if we're not live, I switched on this morning hoping to see emails from him. But there's nothing.
So how far into the build are we? Well, we're waiting for him to sign off the home page of the site. It's a few days since we last had any changes off him for that page and they were returned straight away (subtle changes to colours etc). So I was hoping for an immediate reply.
It looks like we'll be lucky to get the pages signed off for Wednesday, let alone the site live. I could start putting together the site, but with 4 different page style, including the home page, waiting to be signed off, there's little chance that there will be no changes. So I can only wait.
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