How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal

(via kodewulf)

Sometimes my “friends” ask me to help with their “simple, one page website” for their great new idea du jour. After many years, I have finally learned my lesson. Recent convo:

Him: Hey I may have a business proposition for you! I need you to design me a simple, one-page website for this GREAT new business I’m starting.
Me: Thanks, but no thanks.
Him: I thought this was what your consulting business did?
Me: No, we do enterprise technology consulting, mostly regarding network infrastructure design.
Him: Same difference. So do you want to do it or not? Or refer me. We don’t really have a lot of money for design, but it should be really easy.
Me: http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/
Him: Wow that’s great, thanks! I signed up.

YesThisReallyHappened.