Beginner's Guide

Suppose you ooze that "do it all and liking it" attitude. You get questions like:
''Would you advice us to use Joomla?''
and
''Could PHP do the backup cycle for us''
and
''Is it possible to get multilingual support in time?''.
Nothing wrong with these questions, right? How often did you answer them?…without realizing that
you just loaded the barrels of a shotgun pointed at you.
Suppose you answer these questions with "Yes", and refined the answer. That's very nice of you! You
know a lot! The respect you get originates from the fact that you're not only a good developer, but also:
•
have a very sharp vision on how the selection process should be;
•
feel acquainted and safe with the LAMP stack and cronjob-mechanism and you fix it (woow!)
•
that the international open source community and especially a web CMS Joomla is a sort of
homecoming for you; you know a lot of people, anywhere in the world….
'What a man, what a man, what a talented man.
No idea where we're heading? Hold on and ''no worries'', these are just harmless examples to get you
to understand the risks of being foolishly responsive.
Lets pull the trigger of the shotgun pointed at you. Remember that it was you that loaded the
ammunition:
•
Now wait a minute, you advised Joomla and now we have to program tailor-made code that might
solve the issue that Drupal does out of the box?!…'
•
Every night we expected to have a safe copy of our website, because you said PHP was capable of
doing it. We paid you to configure the cronjob. And now we ended up with a useless restore…"
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You promised multilingual support and now we have to pay for it?'
Where did the respect go that you counted on? Why does this customer behave like this? It's obvious
that the customer is angry and I guess you have to work for free to make her or him happy again! So
what's your best bet, pal?
What went wrong? A few elementary things in conducting professional business. And please don't lull
yourself to sleep with
oh, no but I'm just a small firm, a creative entrepreneur, and my customers are
small. I do not need this.
Joomla! 2.5 - Beginner’s Guide
Monday, 30 January 2012! Page 255