Great post! I’m trying to build a freelance career on the side. I’m having a hard time figuring out the unwritten etiquettes of a web dev freelancer. Say, a client wants a Wordpress site, then what are the unwritten deliverables? Do you use ACF for them to be able to edit the website? Do you host them? Do you provide the forms on page? Etc
Cole Turner is a senior software engineer, based in the Bay Area (CA), who specializes in: developing web application products, seamless user experience, and cross-functional communications.
Those are good questions. Hosting or the lack of should be written in the contract. For the project scope I always create a spec and outline what is in scope and what is not in scope. The price of the project then depends on the spec. Making the fields editable increases the level of effort and adds pressure on the user interface to respond to all kinds of inputs versus a fixed set of inputs.
When it’s a requirement or scope item, spec it. If it’s a matter of process or relationship with the client, it belongs in the contract.
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Great post! I’m trying to build a freelance career on the side. I’m having a hard time figuring out the unwritten etiquettes of a web dev freelancer. Say, a client wants a Wordpress site, then what are the unwritten deliverables? Do you use ACF for them to be able to edit the website? Do you host them? Do you provide the forms on page? Etc
Those are good questions. Hosting or the lack of should be written in the contract. For the project scope I always create a spec and outline what is in scope and what is not in scope. The price of the project then depends on the spec. Making the fields editable increases the level of effort and adds pressure on the user interface to respond to all kinds of inputs versus a fixed set of inputs.
When it’s a requirement or scope item, spec it. If it’s a matter of process or relationship with the client, it belongs in the contract.