If Rachel chose to take that post as a different message…

Unfortunately, Rachel’s not the only one who saw it that way. I’m speaking with my Jane B. Average hat on, not my web designer hat.

Someone who may not realize there are other posts surrounding the redesign (i.e. finds her way to that particular link from another site or the search engines) would initially think you were taking a pop at your previous designer. I’m not saying you were, but simply, that’s how it seems.

It’s important to look at how your post may be construed from a different perspective.

While I don’t condone how she resigned (if what you say is fact), I can understand why she did it.

I certainly hope that you and Rachel can work this out cordially.

~ Teli

With regard to Rachel’s resignation, yes she did send an email. As I said, I saw the resignation trackback first because I moderate comments when I wake up. I then saw the valleywag post. I then saw her email. That was just the order I saw things, and I’m sure she sent the email first before she did the other things.

What I wished had happened was this: she could have sent me an email telling me she felt hurt by what I did. I would have taken the offending post down. I would have publicly apologized. I would have done anything to keep her happy. But when the shit hit the fan, and everything was out in the open, I wrote how I felt about the whole situation.

I have never said a bad word about Rachel as a person or a designer and never will.

I want this to stop. I want the death threats to stop in particular.

Michael had contracted Rachel to do work long term, not just for the TC redesign. Rachel wasn’t resigning from the TC redesign but as the person who has been coding up his sites for the past few months. The “announcement” that she made on her blog was simply stating that she had resigned. Not that she was resigning as some tend to believe.

Rachel is up to her neck in work and quite frankly didn’t need the hassle of working with a difficult client who is desperate to get things done and then never actions anything for days and then expects jobs to be rushed and still be at a high standard.

The only drama in this entire melee is from people assuming that they know the full story when they still can’t tell the difference between a public resignation and an announcement that one has just resigned. It is a joke.

From a complete outsiders viewpoint and I have no bones to pick – but it seems to be simply a case of a over dramatic designer. Very thin-skinned indeed.

The client hired her for a job and it was delivered and paid for. End of story. The collective blogosphere pretty much thought the new design was fugly. So what. Learn from it. Move on. once the design is delivered the client can do what he wants – even hack it to death. Who cares, you’ve been paid.

Clients are always going to be difficult – and as a designer you have to learn to deal with that or get out of the game.

Finally, I’ve not seen one instance of the client attacking the designers work. Not once.