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March 15, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Give Me Some Food...
I recently finished a new website design for Kristen Lo, San Francisco-based food blogger over at givemesomefood.com. The site was a lot of fun to design for several reasons (designing for TypePad, using jQuery for the first time, using design elements and colors I’ve never used before, trying to stay valid for the most part, among other things).
But, I learned a big lesson during this particular freelance job: family men don’t have as much time as single men…
What ended up taking me around three months to complete would have taken me a week when I was single. I was fairly up front about my time issues, but I ended up going a month over schedule.
Honestly, it was a hard lesson to learn.
So, while this job won’t be the last I ever take on, I will definitely think about how much time I have and how much time the client is willing to spend waiting for me before agreeing to doing something like it again.
Anyway, take a look at the final product. I think it turned out pretty slick, and I’m glad that Kristen likes it.
I’d like to thank Bob den Otter (of Pivot fame) for helping me solve a silly little bug that evaded me for a couple of weeks!
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