websites for small businesses should be cheap

Websites are expensive.  Like our All Things Wishful CTO says, "they're like sausage - tastes good at the end, but man, what a mess it is to make it."  And wow, seriously, it is quite a lot of work creating just the right site from scratch.  Having worked in consulting first with ginormous technology clients for many years, websites are also a majorly expensive venture.  Thousands and thousands of dollars, a zillion hours... pushing that damn pixel up and down, playing with fonts and copy.  Logos.  Design.  Usability and user experience.  Buttons.  Security.  Privacy.  Data...

But what about the small businesses that want a nice website for their bar or restaurant, yoga studio, photography business?  Why should they have to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to a firm or freelancer to build them a website - that might, just really suck and they wouldn't know it?  WHY!?  WHY!?  WHY!?  When a small business wants a nice website with a nice home page, a menu, a contact us page, a blog, some photos...  they should not be burning valuable resournces on hiring a developer (or few) to build a website.  HELLZ NO.  I've had the opportunity to work with a bunch of small women-owned businesses with their website needs recently, and here are some thoughts:  Click here to read the rest of the article.

~Arry