http://www.tropicalwebworks.org/2008/03/14/ethics-and-web-design-the-professional-responsibility-of-the-web-designer/ Warm breezes, sunshine, and random thoughts Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:49:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.tropicalwebworks.org/2008/03/14/ethics-and-web-design-the-professional-responsibility-of-the-web-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-81229 wmys Sun, 04 Apr 2010 16:43:22 +0000 http://www.tropicalwebworks.org/2008/03/14/ethics-and-web-design-the-professional-responsibility-of-the-web-designer/#comment-81229 This is SO true. In my practice as an ethical web designer I take the best interests of my clients very seriously. I do not make false claims about what I can do for them. I am cognisant my clients' vulnerability - of all that they canno tpossibly know - and I am very careful to act on their behalf in the same fashion as I would want a web professional to act for me. I am currently involved in a web design project for direct sales consultants for a specific company. I have several competitors, most of whom offer an excellent product that any consultant who buys will be happy with. One competitor, however, consistently behaves unethically. On this person's client sites are images that I have personally created for use by my own clients. Also on these sites is a significant amount of text copied verbatim from my own client sites. This person has represented on her profile on a major social networking site that she is a graduate of a local University, when in fact she is a high school graduate. This person represents that she is an experienced web designer when in fact she is not. Her client sites are inferior in myriad ways that only a designer can recognize. But - as you so astutely point out in your article, this person's clients don't know the right questions to ask and even if they did, how would they know that the answers they are getting are false? It is INCREDIBLY frustrating. I am a strong believer in the abundance theory - there is enough for all of us, and I welcome strong competition because it makes me better. But I am sick to my stomach to see people trusting and believing in a scam artist because they cannot possibly know better. http://www.tropicalwebworks.org/2008/03/14/ethics-and-web-design-the-professional-responsibility-of-the-web-designer/comment-page-1/#comment-45196 Ilmaisia Kuvia Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:40:48 +0000 http://www.tropicalwebworks.org/2008/03/14/ethics-and-web-design-the-professional-responsibility-of-the-web-designer/#comment-45196 I agree with you. There is lots of those "designers" who sell crappy sites and I think it is a real problem becouse they ruin honest designers reputation too. It's same thing in SEO, SEM etc.