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Discussion on: What's your opinion of doing free work in exchange for "exposure"?

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Lewis kori

I just checked out the clients from hell website. Interesting stories. Where I am from there's been an increase of people making WordPress sites and promising to deliver products in less than two weeks. A lot of people operating the small businesses will opt for them as they charge very cheaply. This has led to quite a large number of them especially the not so tech-savvy to view systems development as easy and you just drag and drop items to create a website. putting developers in the "doodling pictures" stereotype like designers.

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Ben Sinclair

There's nothing wrong with that example, though. You can knock together a WP site in very little time if you use or lightly modify an off-the-shelf theme.

If that's all the clients need then suggesting something custom is overkill.

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Lewis kori

Thanks for the Insight Sinclair. Highly appreciated.