Lets face it, there's a lot of ugly websites out there. The Oatmeal published one of my favorite articles about the life of a web designer which can be found here: http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell. There is a fine balance between doing what you know is best as a professional web designer and doing what your client wants in order to please them.

Most of the time you can come to a happy medium, but sometimes you just have to give in and do what the client's wallet wants or risk not getting paid for your work. I definitely have several websites I have completed that I feel are not worthy of my portfolio because my client butchered a really good design with crazy web crap. So here's a fun little list of the top 10 things I HATE to put in a website. (more...)

Most of my clients have a pretty good grip on their business, as well as how and to what extent a website will help their business. However, with the down economy, I do get the occasional client who calls me four days after their website goes live, and says something to the effect of:

“Hi, my website has been live for four days, why am I not having to replace my front door because people are beating it down wanting to buy my product? Why have I not had to install six additional phone lines to accommodate all of my new business from the website? Where are all of my new customers? I thought my new website would solve all of my problems!” (more…)