Do not do business with Rhino.
He agreed to create our site for us by a set date, in a written contract. The contract stated that the site would be finished to our liking.
While the site was being built, we provided feedback for things we wanted changed to suit our needs, as well as to have him correct things that were flat out wrong from the beginning, despite our having been very clear as to what we wanted on our site. (Very basic things, like color scheme, he still had not fixed!)
By the end of business on the date the contract specified, the site was not to our liking. Well before the contract date, we provided a very long list of feedback for things we wanted changed. After the contract expired, we asked him if he had even bothered to read the emails we had sent, detailing the changes we wanted made, and he plainly advised "no," he had not even read the emails.
Any time we asked him for a feature that was not part of the Joomla template, he advised that it was either impossible, or would "take a lot of coding." Other times, when we would tell him via text message what we wanted changed, he would tell us that "the template" wouldnt allow it.
Often, when pressed to make corrections, he would explode and tell my business partners that we were trying to intimidate or threaten or otherwise coerce him into working. His text messages would be chock full of curse words and other offensive language.
I hired a web designer, not a template jockey, which is all Brett is. He has trouble working outside of set templates that create very cookie-cutter style, and boring, websites.
When I called Brett to tell him that the contract was null, as the site had not been completed by the specified date, he first told me that the site was, in fact, finished. I told him that was not correct, because it was not done to our liking. Despite all the (unread) feedback email and text, he had not made the changes we wanted to get the site we wanted. He hadnt even bothered to install the SSL that we had paid for and asked him several times to install to show the site (and email) was secure. Despite the fact that he acknowledged that he had not even READ the emails that we'd sent that detailed changes we were requesting to the site, he continued to be adamant that the site was finished.
The conversation ended with Brett swearing and cursing at me and hanging up on me.
As of today, Ive now additionally received threatening text messages that attempted to threaten our business with litigation for posting a negative review of his unprofessional business practices. read more
