Thaw » design http://frozencanvas.com/thaw Design, The Web & Technology Sat, 01 Aug 2009 02:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Freelancer or Cutthroat Pirate http://frozencanvas.com/thaw/freelancer-or-cutthroat-pirate/ http://frozencanvas.com/thaw/freelancer-or-cutthroat-pirate/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:14:31 +0000 admin http://frozencanvas.com/thaw/?p=47 Collaboration between designers, developers and creatives of all types is a booming trend for finding new work. With all of the tools out there to connect and share, collaboration has become so simple. So what happens when a couple or many freelancers with overlapping skills are working for a client that is going to need more work done in the near future?

A few weeks ago I responded to a tweet from a designer that was looking for a WordPress developer to take his design and make it work. This was exciting since it was my first real project that resulted from spending countless hours on Twitter. The project went smoothly working with the designer and the client to iron out a few things in the design. Finally after the site was built and online it was then my job to train the client how to use WordPress. The client was excited and happy to have their site online and ready to move onto the next project.

Since I was the last person that the client had contact with she came to me about designing her business cards and letterhead. Now I love this kind of work, but I had to politely decline and point her back into the direction of the original designer. This was his project and I was more or less a sub-contractor in this deal. I would have felt like a cutthroat pirate if I had snagged this project away from him.

Now the question is, what would you have done?

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