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Website Builders – Fact or Fiction?

October 14, 2018

There are a number of affordable “Website Builder” services available to startup businesses that are designed to help you fire up a marketing presence with minimal time and effort. They often advertise that you can build a “Professional-looking website in minutes.” They also all seem to have the same cheesy commercial featuring overly happy actors that are building their website while hanging out at a park listening to the same song that sounds like it was invented by a 10 year old with a xylophone. Let’s throw some tomatoes at these. “Build a professional-looking website in under and hour” – Fiction What are some things that can be done in one hour? Cooking dinner, working out, holding a company meeting, and taking the dog for a walk. For comparisons sake, I spend at least an hour selecting imagery for the masthead area of a website. It is unlikely that anything other than the most basic website could be built in one hour, regardless of how easy it is to use the website builder. At a minimum, you will still need […] read more

New Website Launched!

October 13, 2018

You know what they say, “the cobbler’s children have no shoes!” It took a while to get around to finishing this, but I am very excited with how it turned out. The main goal was to create a SPA, or Single Page Application, that comes right out of the gates hot and gets down to the content that you want – project samples and company information. Your time is important – why waste it asking you to browse through some behemoth of a site littered with infinite rabbit holes into repetitive content? The major goal from a visual perspective was to convey the feeling of a vision coming to life and taking flight. The child in the masthead image represents that child in all of us, excited and captivated by the unknown mysteries of the world. I believe that we start our lives as our most imaginative selves, and the years that follow are a quest to understand and define that energy through experiences and creation. If only we could harness those thoughts in our adult lives! My goal and […] read more