VAPatrick:


I like how you quickly turned my comment around in defense of your professional colleagues. You would have made a good lawyer, you know?

Far from it, my comment has nothing to do with budget. Even if it were, it's not an excuse to deliver low-quality project. As a web developer, if you accept to deliver a project like Facebook or Whatsapp for N100K, it is your duty to deliver. The client should not be blamed for that. An agreement is an agreement.

Secondly, before now I never knew turning down a project can be considered bad attitude. I am a service provider myself, and I turn down projects on a daily basis. I'll give an example of what I consider bad attitude in respect of web design. I recently hired a web designer from here (I hope he sees this). He completed the first task and got paid for it. I assigned another task to him. This time I made the mistake of paying him 100% of the agreed fee up front, thinking that will motivate him to deliver on time. This project was only supposed to take a few hours, but days later, this guy was still giving me excuses. I checked the file on cpanel and noticed it's not been updated for 5 days, meaning he's not working on it, so I changed the login details and blocked him.

Responding to your last paragraph. I am an IT person too, so for every task I assign, I have at least a fair idea of what it entails. When a dev quotes an unrealistic fee, I simply respond with "okay", and move on to the next person. That's because I don't have the time for negotiation. This has nothing to do with me not having the balls, like you said. By virtue of my military background, I have the balls to do whatever even physically, let alone when I'm behind a keyboard. It's not also a tight budget thing, cos by the grace of God, money is the least of my problems.

Edited:

Over the last 17 years, I have hired more than 50 web developers from this platform, for various tasks. Hence, my comment that web devs here are difficult to work with is not made up, but based on my personal experience vis-à-vis my experience with devs on other platforms like Fiverr. That's not to say there are no good ones. I have met amazing web developers here whose web design/development skills and attitudes are top notch.

Thank you for such a detailed answer. Are there other sites in Nigeria (besides the mentioned Fiverr, which is not only Nigerian) where you can find clients for projects?

We create websites for mainly clients in the United States (our agency - https://dengradel.com/), and our customers are small business owners. How much should we charge for such services in Nigeria? We're curious because I don't see many local agencies here.