8
Mar
2012
So, after 5 years of being self-employed… I finally have made a half-decent website. Of course, what is the “simpler solution” for company site development?
Most freelance web-developers use the following process when building their company website:
- Use whatever technology you use every day… after all this site is a showcase of your skills, and proof you can do your job.
- Learn awesome new tech to make the site-build process worthwhile.
- If there’s nothing directly suitable then write your own system, and perhaps even release it as open source?
I made the decision early-on to use WordPress simply because it’s not what I use every day, and my photography blog runs it, so it can’t suck too bad.
My new logo was crowd-sourced from 99designs.com. I learned a lot from this process… but mostly I learned that sites like 99designs are really unfair, as they keep up to half the commissions for themselves.
The site template was bought from themeforest.net, however I have done rather a large number of changes to it. Good solid work by the chap however, am very impressed.
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Helena
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http://alangraham.co.uk AlanGraham