Eh, looks too salesy for ‘em.
Yegads man. It’s not what I envision for the clients site, just a potential layout.
This was my fault though. We met about redoing a client brand and their website (although in ass-backwards way, but neither here nor there), and was decided I should find some sites that we liked the layout of. I should have said no, but I though, sure, no problem.
Wrong.
The issue was not whether I could find sites I thought would work well as a starting point, but whether I could find sites with the right content for the end result. I should have realized that no matter what I sent would cause some issues. Even people in an agency have the same initial human reaction to live content–it’s not the right market, or it’s salesy, or whatever their objection may be, it’s just natural.
So, after a bit of objections, I pointed out that we should be looking only at overall layout and what the sites in question have to say, or what they have to offer.
I figured that my colleagues could get past this and look at this in a high-level, but lesson learned. Nothing against them of course, it just happens to us all.
Next time, I need to do a bit more before, and create some wireframes for this purpose, and then we can talk about content, but not before / during. Foolish, foolish man.
