i think what clients i've been dealing with for the last year sum up this whole thread .. but it's their logic that i love .. for their portal site i created joe standard directory listing ..
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client: "drop the interface, we'll just do it static pages"
me: "uhh ok, why? you've already got 90% of the info in there"
client: "we don't want to manage it"
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6 months later (launching another portal, same company .. same site basically .. different city)
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client: "lets make this database driven!"
me: "you had that already remember? i still have the code for it .. but all your info is static"
client: "ok, we'll just link to the static pages!"
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(thoughts at this point are .. "i need vodka")
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client: "what's taking so long? we're getting back logged"
me: "well, you've given me like 100hrs of work and you want it in 5"
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client: "popups are good! i want more of them"
client: (another person) "i hate popups.. lets not use em .. blah blah blah .. we need popups"
me: "that's stupid .. you just told me you don't want popups and they piss you off .. you're going to have lots of pissed off people that won't use your site"
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and the best was .. we configured UBB for them .. set everything up, completely branded . and they said there's to many options .. people will get confused ..
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(i have many more lines of rant left .. this is just getting to long)