Those familiar with the finger licking good buffet style eats at the Golden Corral will now get to enjoy its new development service launching January 2011 dubbed Site Buffet™.
Domain investors now get a chance to order graphic design and web development for the low price of $19.99 per site and order as many changes, edits and upgrades as needed.
Domainers no longer need to appropriately pay a graphic designer or web developer for endless change requests or feel embarrassed by the need to request work way beyond the original work specs.
Items include (but not limited to) a wide array from the I Don’t Know What I Really Want™ Site Buffet menu:
- I Don’t Know What I Really Want™ Logos – comes with shapes, colors and text, all interchangeable and completely customized by pixel location. Longitude and latitude of pixel locations from Google Earth required.
- I Don’t Know What I Really Want™ Site Layout – vague generalizations required. Customer must know the art of participating in ‘remote design’ where he/she designs layout by proxy via feeding an endless list of pixel changes to the Site Buffet via the Slave Mouse Pusher.
- I Don’t Know What I Really Want™ Site Monetizer Thingy – no understanding of user experience or browsing habits required. Just tell your dedicated Slave Mouse Pusher what type of monetization you are seeking, how much you want to make and how often you want to make it.
Many of those hungry for the Site Buffet™ solution are excited to be receiving easy and endless development solutions but not everyone is welcoming the news.
“Domainers are strange people.”, stated Jeremy Paul, owner of JP BBQ, a local homemade BBQ business in California.
“They called me up the other day wanting me to spend $10,000 to purchase CaliforniaBBQPlace.com. The page design and functionality was horrible and had no traffic. They can’t seem to understand the concept of investing proper funds in domain branding yet expect to successfully push an underperforming domain to business owners. This new Site Buffet service is nothing but a placebo to the real thing such as how Golden Corral compares to my business.”
Despite some business owners sharing the same views as Jeremy Paul, domainers welcome the news of Site Buffet including long term investor, Sammy Simmons.
“I never believed in my own portfolio enough to invest anything much into web development or graphic design.” Simmons says, cracking a smile.
“Sometimes you have to cut corners and this is where I chose to cut it. But now, thanks to Golden Corral I can have all the development eats my imagination can fathom.”
If the web designer is running a business, isn’t it his or her responsibility to inform the client when something has gone beyond the scope of work? Sometimes people are too busy with other things to realize this has happened, and/or they’re not use to paying per project but rather per hour. With the later, everything gets figured out in the end, but clients usually have to trust their developers (and visa versa) to pay that way so they don’t get screwed in the end.
The client can either opt to pay more for his changes or simply have the designer do what was in the original scope of work and have someone else fix it later.
It’s interesting when you look around Odesk, you can find developers on different ends of the spectrum, in terms of pricing. The low end is $10, the high end $50 and more (per hour). At the low end, I have seen what appear to be very qualified individuals from places like Pakistan, India, Indonesia, etc,. The high end is generally American developers. Now, since I have not gone through them I can’t speak from experience in terms of service, qualifications etc,. I could see where language and communication could be a barrier, in fact someone wrote a blog about it a few days ago. However not everyone has big budgets to spend either, so that is a big consideration as well. For me, I would try to find that happy medium where you can find someone that is easy to communicate with that I can trust and that will charge me a moderate price. Like everything else, you have to develop (pardon pun) a relationship, where both parties are mutually satisfied and trusting of each other. Any disparity in price or work, really gets down to lack of communication and both the developer as well as the designer can be at fault for that. So basically it’s a two way street, communication is essential.