There’s “Technically Possible” And Then There’s “Possible Within Reason”

After I spent three months working on a new website for a financial planning company, they were required to submit it to their compliance department for final approval.

Every time I made their tiny revisions, the department would tell me that I didn’t make the changes and they weren’t live on the test server. I told them to clear their cookies and try again since they were probably seeing a cached version of the website. Finally, they asked me this:

Client: “Is it possible to print out your website, including all links and dropdowns, such as the bios?”

Me: “You’re asking if I can print out an entire website worth of pages, including a different sheet for each version of the ‘About Us’ page with each team member’s bio?”

Client: “Is it possible?”

Me: “Nope.”