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So i'm building a website for this douche, okay. i've already made a thousand revisions. dude wants me to do text-align:center on the input fields. i'm like what the fuck, just let me fix it with text-indent: 10px; and he's all like but center looks better imo.

Seriously dude, shut the fuck up before i quit.

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do I hear a "BAZINGA" in the back office somewhere?

Is he paying you?  cause if he's not I woulda quit already...

but if he is...then as annoying as he is...he's your customer and is paying for you to center his shit just the way he wants it...

not trying to talk smack, just looking at it from the customers point of view...

First world problems  ::)

beat me to it

https://s3.amazonaws.com/theoatmeal-img/comics/design_hell/9.jpg

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell (http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell)

It can suck when you're forced to do something you don't want to do because you accepted money for a job, but you just have to man up and knock it out so you can move on. The key is not getting emotionally attached to your work and giving the customer what they want so they are happy. You might have to do things differently than you normally would or even cut corners, but it's all worth it when both customer and designer are satisfied with the outcome.

If you're an artist more than a businessman then it will be tough. People won't want to hire you if you're unpleasant to work with or always arguing. They want to give a direction and see it come to fruition through your efforts. The best you can hope for is creating your own website or blog and making money from it or selling finished websites on Flippa.

Guy complaining about some stuff thats entirely irrelevant to the world.
Uses "gay" as a synonym for "bad/stupid".

I aint got no further questions. :)

There's got to be some way to sugar-coat "I'm the one with 20 years of design experience, we should really do it this way".

In a professional, calm manner, explain standards and user expectations.  Show the customer other sites with similar forms.  If they still want the data entry fields centered, then do what they want while making sure they acknowledge it is against your advisement.  Depending on your relationship with them you may want it in writing.

In future projects you should have specs for each page that list the data fields, whether they are read-only or editable, fonts, justification, etc.  You can also have a general spec for fields saying all fields are left justified unless otherwise specified.  Also specify that change requests will probably cost them depending upon the nature of the change and how far along you are in the construction.

If the customer later wants to change the specs for a page then enforce your change request policy.

Above all else, always set the customer expectations.  People understand that if they are building a house, it is cheapest to move the bathroom before the architect does any work; it is more expensive to move the bathroom after the architect has drawn all of the plans; it is much more expensive to move the bathroom after the house is framed out; and it is most expensive to move the bathroom after construction is done.  Make your customer understand that it works the same way with website and software development.