I echo many many of the complaints on this board.12 months ago, October 2013, I submitted a comprehensive, concise document to define how and why I needed the website-to-be-created to function. I paid £1780 up front - this was 50% of the agreed fee.
I have a long, long, long, story of complete frustration, total web designer ineptitude, and cynical 'management', which has been non-existent, and nothing short of a total joke.
The web 'design' is done in India - and there must be a high turn-over of staff, because when the going gets tough, they leave and you are lumbered with some other complete beginner, who seemingly can not read and/or understand very simple English.
Communication is the key to this work and after 12 months of total frustration all I can tell you is that it would be easier working with a 5 year-old child than these jokers that are actually attempting to do the work.
No work gets done in the UK. None at all. The salesman, Mark Eden, has no input whatsoever, but will cloud the issues, paly for time, make excuses, ANYTHING, but solve a problem or move things along. In short, they take your money, and do not give a monkeys what happens after that.
Many many MANY e-mails have shown me that they have no qualms about changing the goalposts, before eventually revealing they will not, do what you have fundamentally asked for in the original specification document. That is where I'm at right at this moment. I have been led up the garden path and told that what I've asked for, 12 months down the road, they will not actually do. I suspect this is a combination of greed, (they want to own your website after it's finished , so you pay web fees to them for the rest of it's life), or total ineptitude that they do not have the technical ability to do what has been asked.
They are, without doubt, the most unprofessional people I have ever dealt with, in any field, at any time in my 40 year working career. My only hope is that Watchdog and the Small Claims Court will be able to show WebCreationUK in their true light. They are a joke and a total disgrace.
I did not do my homework. It's my fault. But YOU, dear reader, are hopefully perusing this column before you make the leap into WebCreationUK Oblivion. Please wake up. These people will take your money - and steal a huge amount of your time - before finally leaving you slashing your wrists in sheer frustration.
I have a complete record of the sad, hateful story. If you need any further information please feel free to contact me via e-mail,
[email protected], and I'll be more than happy to copy the whole e-mail bundle of laughs over to you.