When clients go bad

Media Week was redesigned and rebuilt in Plone ( we used Plone at their request, nightmare that it was notwithstanding) about 14 months ago.

Subsequently they've been bought by Haymarket and re-done the site again, this time apparently using Fusebox/Cold Fusion (which is fine, it's probably a house default)...

...and, apart from breaking it quite badly by adding a different footer, they've kept the exact same design and style sheets.

So... you can imagine exactly how bloody amused I am by this:

I'll pass over the irony of how adding this fraudulent crap to the footer is the actual reason why the layout's now broken, and instead just state this for the record:

No, you bloody did not do the site design. This person did comps, and I did the work. Including the CSS files which you're still using, even having gone so far as to make your new app spit out IDs and class names which match those in Plone exactly in order to not have to re-do them yourselves. So if you wouldn't mind not lying about that, I'd appreciate it. And if, while you're at it, you'd care to unbreak the layout, that'd be nice too.

Update, the next day: The offending button has been removed surreptitiously this afternoon. They haven't bothered to reply to the nice email I sent them, though. Nor fixed the layout, which remains hideously broken.

Trackback URL for this post:

http://handelaar.org/trackback/175

delicious | digg | reddit