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January 13, 2008

Cost of design & development work

Working on our “Packages” page today got me to thinking about some of the comments I’ve gotten regarding pricing for web work. Considering how skittish the average person is around a computer, it’s still surprising to me that the web design field gets so little respect (at least in my experience it does). Web design and development are both fields that require a lot of skill, practice, and pretty focused experience. So many customers seem to be under the impression that anyone with a PC and limited word processing skills can do it. In part that is true. Anyone can...

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January 10, 2008

Need better portfolio!

Ha ha — who doesn’t, right? Anyway I was looking through my (admittedly still small) portfolio of current finished sites this evening and can’t help but feeling that they are looking rather out of date already. What really gets me about this is that most of these sites do not look the way I would have liked to design them. In most of them the customer just wanted something done, and they wanted something simple (read: CHEAP!!) that could be thrown together at a moment’s notice. This is probably fairly common in this industry but it sucks that I feel...

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January 10, 2008

Working on our own site

Have been spending time lately working on our own website… the design is coming along but the content is, well, nonexistent at this point. The business got off to such a quick start that our own site was put on the back burner. Now that we have a lull to take advantage of, it’s a good time to get back to the M2 site. Though technically it is “out there” (and not particularly hard to find either), we can’t actively use it for promotion until it’s ready to be seen by the world. One thing causing an issue is the...