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Just because …
By Bella on October 18th, 2009
This is a “sticky post”, written in October of 2009. After you’ve read this post, please scroll down to read newer posts.
Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
Just because you can drive a car, doesn’t mean you should race at Talladega.
Just because you have a Waterpik®, doesn’t mean you can pull your own teeth.
Just because you can use a sewing machine, doesn’t mean you should make every item in your wardrobe.
Just because you have a computer and a free website design program doesn’t mean you should create your own website.
Unless you actually create websites for a living, you should leave web design to the professionals. Web design isn’t one of those things that you can teach yourself to save some money. If you’re not a professional designer, your self-designed site looks exactly like what it is – unprofessional and homemade. If you think your potential clients won’t know the difference, you’re dead wrong. Potential clients do notice the quality of your website; if your looks unprofessional, they’ll think your services are unprofessional too.
A website has to be more than pretty pictures and a bunch of links and text. When designing a site, especially one that is supposed to make you money, keep in mind that the site should use properly sized fonts and optimized images; it should be easy to read and fast to load. A well-designed website is viewable in all current major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Chrome).
Like your photographs and your wardrobe, your website distinguishes you from your competition. If your site is a clone of thousands of others or if it looks self-done, don’t fool yourself, you are likely out of the running. The providers who spend hundreds of dollars on luxurious lingerie and professional photography do so because they can’t make LaPerla® panties and no matter how nice their camera is, they will never be Santillo.
Photography, lingerie design and web design are things best left to the professionals; they have the skills and the experience to represent you in your best light and make you look your best.