Pre-school children were asked the following question:

“In which direction is the bus pictured below travelling?”

Look carefully at the picture. Do you know the answer?
(The only possible answers are “left” or “right.”)

Think about it

Still don’t know?

Okay, I’ll tell you.

The pre-schoolers all answered “right”.
When asked, “Why do you think the bus is travelling in the right direction?”
they answered:
“Because you can’t see the door.”

How do you feel now ???
I know, me too.

1. Pre-reserve your domain and hosting with a small and obscure foreign web based company.
2. Assume that those who made your website also inherited the technical support for your emails.
3. Send all your texts on plain old paper, but not handwritten. It’s important that the guy who has to retype them knows that there is a digital version somewhere.
4. When the web agency ask for your logo, give them an old business card that was in your wallet for the last 3 years.
5. When they ask “what you would like to be able to change by yourself in your website”, answer “everything!”. And when the site is done, send them your stuff instead of changing it yourself.
6. Ask them for a for “plug & play” quotation, Ex.: “I’d like a quotation of the site with and without a shopping cart, with and without the gallery ..” and so on for every single part of your site.
7. Send them drafts, let them integrate them, then send some corrections.. iterate over and over until they collapse crying in a corner of the room.
8. Although you don’t know anything about the web (and proclaim it), insist that the web designers do the site exactly like you want it instead of what they think would be best for you.
9. During the initial meeting, brag that you will write all the needed texts over night and send them back the next morning. Then give no sign of life for the next 3 month and call back asking “Is my site done yet ?!”
10. Tell them you need a Youtube like website but with Facebook functionalities and the simplicity of Google. Of course you have a very limited budget and the quotation must be on your desk for the next morning.