Writing Content

[dedwardp]

Yeah, I feel like the jobs incomplete unless I have all the text in place. When people view it on my portfolio I want them to see it all complete with text and not body copy etc.

Which leads me onto my second issue, how to display web work on my website.

I think if you put a screenshot up of how the site was when you handed it over, then you can either link to it if you like it or not if you don't.

I've done sites before where I've passed it over and they've ruined it aesthetically and made it look pretty poor, so I then haven't wanted to be linking to it any more and would just prefer to show a few screenshots of what it was intended to be like!

[Tony Hardy]

Yeah that's the issue I'd have too. I think I'll screenshot my designs as they were when I handed them over like you suggest. Then, once a client has edited and modified them, well, that's up to them.

[Katedesign]

I offer to write or help clients write if they can't supply - especially when they want it to be 'optimised'. It is most frustrating when no copy comes along. One of my clients has had a holding page for a whole year!

[Corrosive]

@ Corrosive
Hahaha, the silent death of the web designer :( Do you then include the website in/on your portfolio site if it isn't live?

Yes, every day I cry a little more inside :icon_crying: No, doesn't go in the portfolio until it is live. In fact we don't include everything anyway. We have enough clients and sites to be selective now.

A one of the other guys posted that you can hand over a site to a client and then they ruin it with sub-par photos or pi** poor text. They don't go in either!

[Tony Hardy]

Haha fair enough :) I think I'll just put in shots of before I hand it over to the client :)