The number one bad and unacceptable advice that I have gotten from many people who advice me as a young and upcoming designer is that clients are always right. For me, this is completely nonsensical in all ramifications. This is because of the fact that when you try to keep to everything that the client tells you, you will come up with trash. Now, since I am working in professional web design company in Dubai, I know more about the job than the clients, who in actual sense may be completely ignorant in this field. My job is to find a way of giving him that which he has in mind which may not necessarily be what he is asking for. If you must follow his instructions during the process of the job, you may end up coming up with something you will not be proud of, and this goes a long way to sell you badly.
The next is the advice that customers should not be expected to spend enough money to design a website that is not giving them money already. This is one of the most warped arguments any human being can put up about businesses and their growth. The fact remains that most of the people who seek for web design are simply middle income people who are tired of the status quo and wants to start and run something on their own, and therefore do not have the excess money to throw around. In this regard, they are not expected to go for heavy elite websites like those of huge moguls seeking to get more branches. However, one thing is sure, when your website is below par and not in the same level with those of the firms you are competing with, you have started failing and will never achieve the successes you are looking for. This is why you should jettison this idea but rather focus on the best possible ways to get the best websites at the highest minimal cost. A cost around $150 will do in this regard, unless you are using a professional friend designer.
Then on the part of the designer, the advice that no price is too high is also very bad. The fact is that there is competition in the industry and all in need of web design will likely shop around before choosing the designer to use. This shopping around is mostly centered on the price. Because of this, you have to use the guide to pricing and ethics to give prices that are reasonable and in line with what others in your area are charging. If you do not abide by this, you will either not get new clients or repeat clients.
Another hopeless advice is one given to new business starters that the fliers and business cards are more important than a website for their business, and therefore, they should start with the former before moving to the later. Now, I am telling these lots that they have gotten it wrong. The first thing you should be thinking about whenever you conceive a business is the website. When you have one, other things can now follow, and in fact, most of the other things will be developed in consideration of the template of the website. You don’t get a different type of flier from a different designer and come with a different business card in concept and look and a different website. It does not match, and does not sell you well.
Another bad advice is the one that says that the outputs and gain that clients get from the website depends on the amount they spend on the website, therefore, they should spend whatever is asked of them. As much as you get value when you pay for it, the above statement is bad because a website that costs $1000 in the current dispensation and one that costs about $2500 may not have many differences. You can only spend freely if you are going for the complex websites.
The next stupid advice is one that tells me never to do proofing, since it is not my job as a designer. There is no way you can copy a text and paste on a web page you are designing, and seeing some glaring errors, you ignore them because they were not written by you. This is impossible.