Website Lifecycle

When is it time to redesign your website? Is there a set time period or list of criteria that can determine when it’s time? Yes and no. Here is where experts tend to be divided. It seems there is a big disparity between what the designers, programmers, and SEOs think.

From the designers perspective fads and trends are always changing. So, if you ask a designer when it’s time to redesign they would say sooner rather than later. This logic seems to make sense, especially considering your competition. Any advantage you have is good. However, there is a fine line between keeping it fresh and confusing visitors.

Freelancing and Contracts

Freelancing… What a joy, what a pain! I’ve found that the biggest drawback to doing freelance work is the lack of recourse when a client doesn’t pay. Sometimes as a freelancer you take jobs that bigger firms wouldn’t take just to pay the bills. These jobs tend to be smaller and less profitable, but you take them nonetheless. That’s where the problems begin.

There are many things I’d like to talk about in this post, but I’ll keep it on point this time. There is however one point I’d like to make first - underselling yourself.

10 Tips for selling web design.

One of the most difficult things to do when selling anything is educating the client. Disclaimer: I am not a sales expert, let’s get that straight now. I am however experienced at seeing the process happen. And that’s one of the only things I can claim - my experience.

"Jack of all trades, master of none?"

Just a few days ago I was reading Authentic Boredom, Cameron Moll’s blog. He had just posted an entry titled, "Designer, Coder: Separate roles or one?" and I found it very interesting. The gist of his entry was asking whether Designers are as effective coding (front end coding - HTML/CSS) their own designs as a separate design/code team.

Does your website work for you?

After all, what is the purpose of a website? To dominate your industry, of course. Along with that comes many great and wonderful benefits like, traffic. We all know that with traffic comes increased business. Well, if everyone thought in terms of what was possible with a website there would be a shortage of web designers and developers. To this day it is still an enigma - why people don’t want a quality website. I know I’m not the first to bring this up and most definitely won’t be the last.

I heard some very disturbing and shocking comments while meeting with a potential client.