It was a dark and stormy night, and the website project was wrapping up. The client was exhausted. Turns out the web developer who seemed such a good fit on the discovery call was actually a bad apple: a cowboy builder of the digital world.

The poor client had been bamboozled with jargon and pushed into using expensive plugins they probably didn’t need. They didn’t know how to use their own site and come to think of it they hadn’t even been given a password to log into the backend.

And now the developer had disappeared from the orchard, never to be seen again.

Here’s the juice: it doesn’t have to be that way.

There are plenty of Good Apples in the web developer barrel.