When You Need A Website, But Don’t Know Where To Start

If you’ve found my site, chances are you might be looking to get some help with a website or business graphics. Maybe you’ve been in business for awhile but haven’t taken the leap to build your own site. Or maybe you are just thinking about starting a business, and know that a website is important to help get your info/services/offer out to the world. 

Bear with me as I share a little background…

I’ve been a website designer since way back in the 1900’s – 1998 to be exact – when you had to hand-code every single little piece of the website you were creating. The sites were functional back then, barely, and not very pretty! And it was a steep climb to convince businesses that they needed to be online. I remember walking the streets of the little town we lived in, visiting businesses and asking if they had a website. Most (almost all) said no, we don’t have one… and many (almost all) said, no, we don’t need one. I genuinely believed it at the time, and looking back it’s been confirmed – they would eventually need websites… (and also, I was ahead of my time. <grin>).

Thankfully for MY small beginning business, several people did take me up on the offer to help them get online. One company had no website, but they jumped all in and hired me to design a full e-commerce site for them. Another company, a realtor, already was online but they wanted a better look and an easier system for updating on a regular basis. Now, remember the hand-coding I mentioned? It wasn’t very easy to design an e-commerce or realty site, much less one that a client could take over and maintain themselves. I remember both times speaking with the clients and in my head I wasn’t “exactly” sure how I was going to do what they wanted, but I was “pretty” sure I could figure it out. And I did.

So, fast-forward 2 decades and then some, and the website design world has changed more than I can describe. I remember in the early 2000’s when WordPress came out, and I was overjoyed! Finally a system for building websites existed that would allow me to build and hand over a website to a client with a few simple tutorials. The WordPress of 2005 was an ancient dinosaur to what exists now, but it was ground-breaking and business-changing. I started building websites and blogs and helped a lot of bloggers get their start, when blogging was all the rage.

I took quite a few years off from designing-for-hire full time when my children came along, because it’s kind of a focused-intense-concentration kind of job and that was impossible with littles. Over the last two decades I’ve continued working with my own websites and a few sites of friends as well, so I’ve kept up with WordPress. I’ve also done some designing with square and worked with shopify and wix. There really isn’t a platform that I don’t work with, but by far WordPress is my favorite and it’s what I recommend for small to medium business sites, personal websites, and blogs.

If you’ve read this far, bless you… if you are still thinking you’d like to explore the idea of getting a website designed, be sure to download my “Help! I Need A Website And Don’t Know Where to Start” overview. It might answer a few questions for you, and then when you’re ready, contact me and let’s get started!

I promise it’s easier than it seems, and I’ll be here every step of the way to answer questions, design for YOU, and help you take control over your website.