Rick Howard

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Works great for styling links. Actually that is the last answer to a stressful week.

Ryan, the creative director, took his vacation this week, which meant I had to answer emails and phones regarding web problems.

Most of the contact wasn’t problems, but a constant flow of “when will my stuff be finished?”

EZ-auto is on the verge of being complete as well as Microfax. Also while the boss was out, we finished designing a newsletter for aprivateisland.com, finished up some more AMW changes, made an fla for Old Town Realty’s flash, got photography for Great Expectations, got Proracks into the home stretch, and put together entries for the GDusa awards.

Also attended two meetings with Adam, one in a large group and one with a single person.

I learned a lot about client relations and time management.

In the words of Tom from Better Than Ezra, “It wont be a long time, but it will be a good time!”.

This week has been a good week. Mastergreen and Greenbiz’s websites have neared completion and some other sites are moving out the door as well.

“The Greens” (Mastergreen and Greenbiz) are particularly good because they presented printed versions of their webpages. These pages then listed the changes to their sites which makes it easier to identify problems. This is what all clients should do. By either printing out the pages or clearly identifying problem pages, it makes it easier to fix.

If you send vague instructions like “Can you change that one image to a Panther?” and your site has 50 images, then we have to play information tag and it takes longer to resolve.

It’s the same on our side of the deal, we want your information presented in a manner where your customers or visitors can find it easily. Noone should have to play Where’s Waldo for information.

I have anger toward Burger King, they advertise their whopper combo with the perception the Whopper contains a Spiderman game piece. Alas it does not, so I had to eat a whopper instead of a delicious chicken sangwich. I guess it backfires because the sangwich combo cost more than a whopper. So you just lost about a $1.50 Burger King.

Companies should be a little more careful with their advertising. It’s important to market yourself but make sure you haven’t lost the main reason to advertise.

To attain the largest profit.