I've been tooling around with HTML and hand-coding websites since the mid-1990's, and I've learned a lot - from making some really bad websites, to trying to teach myself how not to make really bad websites. I think I've come a long way, but the sites should speak for themselves.

These days, I prefer to create websites for companies who need a website, but don't really know where to start. I rescue people from the "Do It Yourself With Our Plug and Play" web templates and that harbinger of bad web design, the WYSIWYG editor. I preach about how a website should, ultimately, work for your potential consumers and clients, not to show off to other web designers about how cool your implementation of certain web technologies is. Remember, your customers might not stay the whole 2 minutes it takes to download your 45-second Flash intro of your logo spinning and exploding.

Sometimes, what the client needs is a content management system (CMS), something like Joomla or a blog/CMS like WordPress or Blogger, and potential clients often wonder, "If you're just using free, pre-programmed software, why should I pay you to do it?" It's actually quite simple; unless you're a web-designer, or are inordinately and uncharacteristically (for someone who doesn't design and implement websites on a regular basis) comfortable with acronyms like HTML, CSS, PHP, and AJAX, you don't really want to waste days mucking around in that mess - you are wasting precious time that should be spent promoting your own business or sevices. Let me handle the headache, for a fee, and keep going about doing whatever it is you do. Of course, if you want to spend all those hours and end up with a website that looks like this, by all means, go for it. (* Advanced apologies to the author/designer - I'm not picking on you. Honestly.)

As far as my website designs are concerned, the function should dictate the design. Sure, your site can be pretty like a 6-foot supermodel, but she'd better be able to bench press 300lbs in that Stella McCartney dress. That, as the saying goes, is how I roll.

Samples, comps, and links to live sites coming soon...

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