Rebuilding the Wheel
As my business endeavors grow, expand, and ultimately morph, I’m faced with a new problem; my website is outdated. I thought I was a genius at the time I built it; Flashy Flash and dynamic fields that are easily updated. HA! Now I look at it (or don’t) and HATE it. So I have no choice but to start over and make the information flow easier. Currently, I host 2 bulletin boards, 2 galleries, 1 blog, a shopping cart and one extremely disjointed website with such a range of products that it’s a mish-mash of mushy mess. Too many links, user-unfriendly, and in the end, nobody’s using any of the features available anyway. Time to streamline. But in doing so, I’ve delved into the evil world of CODE, that mysterious language(s) that give me a Ben Affleck migraine when I sit down to try to decipher them. You almost have to be a mathmatical genius to figure this crap out. Arrays, variables, divisions, yap yap blah blah….
Is it wrong to take the easy way out and hire another designer to do it for me?
June 1st, 2006 at 2:05 pm
not at all! I do the basic layouts in Illustrator and give them to my programmer husband who then mysteriously does Flash-y things and puts it on the web. Well, he’s supposed to, anyway. My site STILL isn’t updated….waiting….any day now….
yeah, right. Go ahead and do it yourself!