Getting Started

Basic information about websites and the web design business

Web Designers are Flaky

November 1, 2010 Getting Started

Okay, they’re not all loony, some of them are actually quite good, but there are a lot of web designers that are just plain flaky. They don’t call when they say they’re going to call. They don’t show up when they say they’ll show up. They don’t do what they say they’re going to do, and they ultimately disappear (sometimes after haphazardly piecing together a sorry excuse for a website, and sometimes before finishing so much as a concept).

I can’t tell you how many clients I’ve had who have at least one horror story to share about their past designer or developer. “The guy did some work and then suddenly told me

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My Web Development Process

October 29, 2010 Getting Started,Web Design

When I put myself in the shoes of someone who is looking for a website, I feel like the process of finding a person, company, web designer, developer, whoever, to make a good website could be a little (or a lot) confusing. How does it all work? I pay you, then what happens? How do I end up with a website I’ll be happy with?

I’ve worked out a general outline of my web design and development process below to explain “how it all works.” Not all designers or companies will do it the same, and it may

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