If some clients were god’s we’d have pink trees

I have come to the conclusion that by some rule of karma some clients are either colour blind or doing it to get a rise out of web designers.

For instance, take a site you’ve slaved on and designed to a pixel of it’s life – we’ve all done them. Sites where you’ve fiddle with the shadiest of hues to get the perfect match. So, you launch the baby and all is well. Then, out of the blue your client contacts you wishing to change the colour and nothing else. They love the design just in lilac or bright orange. Of course, this will clash horribly with that perfect match you’d done on text, headers and anything else in the site. I have found you can almost place money on it being the most clashing / worst combination of colours too.

It’s nothing new and part of having a client. Just sometimes though you end up in the usual crying into your itunes libary pose. This follows or preceeds the coffee making and drinking rant to any who will listen. If I am working at home I find my dog works well for this ranting phase.