My Last Website….
December 31, 2007
The website for Western New York Energy is now live. It’s probably the hundredth website I’ve done since 1995. It is real simple and built so that the client can post and edit news, job listings, and photos from a web browser interface.
From here on out, I am no longer designing and coding websites as individual, stand-alone projects. I will continue to provide creative direction, writing, and marketing consulting services. I’ll continue to specify and manage freelance web developers and designers. But I’m not writing code from scratch myself and it would be wrong to represent otherwise.
Don’t misunderstand… I consider the web a vital part of any marketing program, and I keep abreast of what is going on. But when an inexpensive freelancer (from down the street or off in the third-world) can do the grunt work for a fraction of my price, it seems absurd for me to blow my client’s budget on my inefficient attempts at geekery. So I will gladly consult and project manage freelance or inhouse geeks, yours or mine, remote or local… but I’m not mucking with the code myself.
Occasionally I might do a one-page website from scratch for a small business (and I believe that many small businesses need ~only~ a single page website!)