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New site launched

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:

  1. Use whatever technology you use every day… after all this site is a showcase of your skills, and proof you can do your job.
  2. Learn awesome new tech to make the site-build process worthwhile.
  3. 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.
  • Helena

    Hi Alan – We also use WordPress and have found it works great for blog sites as well as a pretty nifty Content Management System for more complex projects. And, we are all for Open Source!
    Interesting to get your views on 99designs – half the commission is rather greedy. Anyway, the site looks great!

    • http://alangraham.co.uk AlanGraham

      Thanks Helena.  

      You actually found it before it was finished, hehehe.  Well… it’s been “up” for a few weeks however I’m not telling folk about it until I’ve fixed a few things, and written a selection of blog posts.