P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
> "Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
> news:ftlj85$e81$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>> P@tty Ayers ~ACE wrote:
>>> "Mad Dog" <md@maddogproductions-remove.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ftlibv$d8k$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>>>
>>>> The business will still be there, but be prepared for people
>>>> wanting to pay less for the same thing or at the least, just
>>>> wanting smaller, cheaper sites.
>>>
>>> Or to create the site themselves, or have a nephew do it.. <sigh>.
>>
>> ...and then call you to fix up the mess they made and wind up paying
>> as much or more than they would have had they gotten you to do it in
>> the first place.....(:})
>
> ..And then find another relative or intern to do it, and leave you
> writing time-consuming proposals for 3 or 4 web sites a month, but
> not getting nearly enough of the contracts because they're all just
> shopping and taking advantage of you, so that you get tired of the
> whole thing and leave the country for a while to do volunteer work,
> and then come back and start up doing web design again, but with a
> different business model.. oh, sorry, was I actually writing that? :-)
>

Actually you were pretty much describing what happened in 2001....I went to
Bali for 8 months and when I got back most of the corporate website writing
had vanished and I got more into the web design part of it. I wonder what
I'll shift to this time around!