| You want to build your own web site but you | | | | decided that if I wanted a professional looking web |
| don’t know where to start. Some things to | | | | site I needed to consult a professional web designer. |
| consider first are, how much do you already know? | | | | There are a lot of web designers out there; however |
| Do you have the time to learn about PHP, HTML, | | | | most of them work for a larger company which puts |
| XHTML, Graphic’s, Tables, JavaScript, and SEO? | | | | together a team who will deliver your content the |
| If all of those terms are foreign to you, you may | | | | way you wish to see it appear on your site. This |
| want to think about having your site designed for | | | | makes perfect sense does it not? Instead of one |
| you by someone who already posses this type of | | | | single person doing all the work it takes just to get 3 |
| knowledge. Knowledge is the key to success in most | | | | or 4 pages constructed, you now have a small team |
| cases and if it’s your plan to sell something on | | | | of experts to make your site look exactly the way |
| the internet, the design of your web site is vastly | | | | you want it. One person will handle the graphics while |
| important. | | | | another works on how the tables will be laid out. This |
| Speaking from personal experience web design is a | | | | certainly cuts down on the amount of time it will |
| challenge. I found that a great deal of time went into | | | | take to get your site up and running effectively and |
| simply learning how to 'write the code' that | | | | efficiently. |
| computers use to display what a web page looks like | | | | Most companies specializing in web design will also |
| once viewed. Aside from this, another challenge was | | | | make sure your site gets visitors. Think of the |
| figuring out how get my pages onto a server and | | | | money you will be saving by allowing someone else |
| get them to display correctly. Frustrated, I quickly | | | | to build your site for you. |