Many clients go into shock when they're quoted, say, 10k for a website. This is true. However, most are perfectly happy to accept a 5k - 10k fee for a small spread ad in The Irish Times or Sunday Business Post for
one day only. On the other hand, your website is your shopfront to the world and lasts for years and years. It's also considerably more time-consuming to produce a website. What does this say about clients? That's right - they don't understand the web, its value or what it takes to deliver a professional website and in many cases, especially in Ireland, they don't really care.
When companies like Ripe.ie come along and try to spam already uneducated clients into believing that it's perfectly acceptable to pay peanuts for shoddy, irresponsible and unprofessional crap then those of us who have sweated blood over the last few years to actually get good at our jobs and try to offer a
professional service... well... we're going to get a bit peeved.
