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Old 06-21-2012, 07:24 AM  
iSpyCams
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Fact 1: nobody gives a shit about the fucking mushroom. It is fake drama, smokescreen, nitpicking.

Fact 2: People who are trying to do business will not care about every personal detail of their designer. Designers are supposed to deliver designs at a cost that is within budget in a reasonable timeframe. Everything else is filed under "who gives a shit" unless you are trying to make friends, in which case I understand Facebook is handy.

Fact 3: People who want designs will continue to use Gimme-Website regardless of any oversized mushroom favicons or tiny green penises because they will start looking around here and find:

a) Suzanna - take a look at the pricing and decide to shop around a bit
b) (someone I'm not gonna name because he's cool but slow) - Be impressed by dirt cheap pricing then hire him and watch him blow through 3 or 4 promised delivery dates with no contact.
c) Two or Three other guys who quote an hourly rate and can't give a clear indication how long its going to take them.
d) Finally talk to GW who does eye-catching designs, quotes reasonable prices, realistic delivery dates and then actually gets it done.

Fact 4: Being a designer requires a person to be an artist first, a coder second and if you are going to get any business done at all a promoter. All of those 3 roles favor personality types who are very likely to be in conflict with one another.

Ana is an artist. Artists draw inspiration from a wide variety of sources, and some of their work ends up looking a lot like that source. They are also tempremental and can sometimes behave in ways that don't seem logical or that don't help the promoter aspect very much.

In the end its the delivered designs that count and not some rediculous non-controversy about a mushroom or some tangent she went off on to protest what she saw as code theft.

Anyway Ana designed my first paysite in 2008 and and shes designing my most recent one now. She has done quite a few projects for me in between. I have been out shopping for other designers multiple times and I always come back to her because nobody else can deliver the same quality at her price and in the time frame quoted.
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