Group Five Website

Let’s just say that this project was a life lesson for many, many reasons. But I’ll get into that later.

This site is for a South African construction and materials manufacturing company, Group Five. They wanted to roll a CMS website about their company and a place to get financial information all at the same time, while keeping the site simple and clean. My design accomplished this and the client loved what I had produced. I was told that the boys & girls at Happy Cog wrote the back end for it and made it work into their CMS. Apparently, Happy Cog also loved the design, which I consider a very high compliment since they are one of the best major web design firms around.

What I learned on this project:

1. Always have an air-proof  contract, especially when dealing with companies that are overseas.

2. When working with someone outside of your country, require at least 50% upfront, if not more, in the case they disappear suddenly.

3. There can never be too much communication between you and the client. I think I did this quite well in this respect, but unfortunately, the client just stopped responding back and I was left hanging.

4. Even if you lose a whole lot of time and money in a project, if you worked hard and made good work, you have a killer portfolio piece.