Comments on: Why Web Design Shouldn’t Be a Do-It-Yourself Task http://brendanwenzel.net/do-it-yourself-web-design/ Wed, 09 May 2012 15:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Nicholas http://brendanwenzel.net/do-it-yourself-web-design/#comment-1813 Nicholas Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:46:25 +0000 http://brendanwenzel.net/?p=889#comment-1813 Brendan, So true... I have been doing my blogs and they all suck;-) I am now getting clients and need your services. Let me know how I can hire your designs "wholesale" so I can make a profit on them while selling them at a reasonable price to my clients.<br>Thanks!<br>Nicholas Brendan, So true… I have been doing my blogs and they all suck;-) I am now getting clients and need your services. Let me know how I can hire your designs “wholesale” so I can make a profit on them while selling them at a reasonable price to my clients.
Thanks!
Nicholas

]]> By: Nicholas http://brendanwenzel.net/do-it-yourself-web-design/#comment-1680 Nicholas Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:46:25 +0000 http://brendanwenzel.net/?p=889#comment-1680 Brendan, So true... I have been doing my blogs and they all suck;-) I am now getting clients and need your services. Let me know how I can hire your designs "wholesale" so I can make a profit on them while selling them at a reasonable price to my clients.<br>Thanks!<br>Nicholas Brendan, So true… I have been doing my blogs and they all suck;-) I am now getting clients and need your services. Let me know how I can hire your designs “wholesale” so I can make a profit on them while selling them at a reasonable price to my clients.
Thanks!
Nicholas

]]> By: Steven Downward http://brendanwenzel.net/do-it-yourself-web-design/#comment-1649 Steven Downward Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:57:33 +0000 http://brendanwenzel.net/?p=889#comment-1649 That lesson took me a long time to learn. I was the type of person where I wanted to save the money and not hire someone to do it up for me. I think that this was not the best idea in the long runand I should have just paid the money and had someone design my sites for me. <br><br>Learned it now and so happy that I did. <br><br>Thanks Brendan That lesson took me a long time to learn. I was the type of person where I wanted to save the money and not hire someone to do it up for me. I think that this was not the best idea in the long runand I should have just paid the money and had someone design my sites for me.

Learned it now and so happy that I did.

Thanks Brendan

]]> By: Brendan Wenzel http://brendanwenzel.net/do-it-yourself-web-design/#comment-1647 Brendan Wenzel Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:55 +0000 http://brendanwenzel.net/?p=889#comment-1647 Hi J.D., <br>That is completely understandable. The best way to outsource something and get what you want is to provide good examples of what it is you are looking for. By showing the designer examples, it gives them something to work from. Also, most good designers (at least I do this) will do a 30 minute consultation or so to find out the rest of the details about the site they are building.<br><br>I looked over your site and check out the validation ( <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsourcesofinsight.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0" rel="nofollow">http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsourcesofinsight.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0</a> ). Yes, that 185 errors and 81 warnings. And most of that is from poor theme construction. That free theme you are using is plagued with bad code and that WILL hurt your SEO efforts without question. There are many open tags that just blow my mind. <br><br>I can make you a theme very close to that one using <a href="http://brendanwenzel.net/thesis" rel="nofollow">Thesis Theme</a> that would have clean code and infinitely better SEO possibilities. Hi J.D.,
That is completely understandable. The best way to outsource something and get what you want is to provide good examples of what it is you are looking for. By showing the designer examples, it gives them something to work from. Also, most good designers (at least I do this) will do a 30 minute consultation or so to find out the rest of the details about the site they are building.

I looked over your site and check out the validation ( http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fsourcesofinsight.com%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0 ). Yes, that 185 errors and 81 warnings. And most of that is from poor theme construction. That free theme you are using is plagued with bad code and that WILL hurt your SEO efforts without question. There are many open tags that just blow my mind.

I can make you a theme very close to that one using Thesis Theme that would have clean code and infinitely better SEO possibilities.

]]> By: J.D. Meier http://brendanwenzel.net/do-it-yourself-web-design/#comment-1646 J.D. Meier Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:21:10 +0000 http://brendanwenzel.net/?p=889#comment-1646 I really wanted to outsource my Web design, but I was worried about driving somebody nuts while we iterated to something I could tolerate :) I really wanted to outsource my Web design, but I was worried about driving somebody nuts while we iterated to something I could tolerate :)

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