What To Do When a Friend or Charity Needs a WebSite and You Just Can't Say No
June 19th, 2007 in Web Design Culture
by: Matthew Griffin
If you’ve been in the web design business for very long you know how frequent requests for free work can be. Charities need websites, your friends are constantly coming up with ideas that need websites, relatives need a family reunion website, and the list goes on and on.
I’ve found that the best way to deal with these kinds of requests is to decide in advance how many free projects you will work on per year and stick with that number no matter what. Otherwise, your business can easily get smothered by all the great causes. Also, don’t forget the myriad of free tools that can get your free loading clients up and running really fast with minimal effort. My personal preference is to use and feedburner.com to create a quick custom blog. With a few minor tweaks to one of blogger’s built-in templates and a little time configuring feedburner, I can have a pretty nice looking website with some very impressive features. Here is one that I am working on right now. It has taken me a total of three hours to get it where it is. Not too bad!
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