On 6 Sep, 09:44, "antanas.1...@gmail.com" <antanas.1...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Please a newbie webmaster- I need an answer to a question how to
> sign contracts for webmaster work.

Simplest:

Take a piece of paper, write on it. Most web-design is still done
with a large amount of face-to-face meeting between client and
developer.

Best remote method:

Investigate public key cryptography. Look into PGP and download the
open source equivalent of GnuPG. This works for an excellent
signature mechanism, although it requires customers who also
understand it.

Most practical remote method:

Fax or scan and email paper copies of documents with written
signatures. Follow up by mail.


> If I sign and fax a website design contract to
> customers abroad for them to sign, which they sign and fax back, is their faxed
> signature legally binding without an orginal as a backup?

Law on signature is variable between countries, but is largely
irrelvant. Contract law doesn't require a signature, it requires
agreement. If you mutually agree that faxed signatures will constitute
binding agreement to that contract (something you write into the
contract itself) then your fax constitutes this agreement to the
contract. Any disagreement afterwards cannot then claim that the
contract was unsigned: you can argue over the terms of the contract
(as ever!) but for a party to claim that the contract was actually
unsigned and thus inapplicable is no longer a matter of amicable(sic)
contract disagreements, it's a matter of alleging forgery by the other
party. Most clients will dispute the interpretation of the terms of a
contract, very few would go so far as to allege actual criminality in
this way.