Time for Website Changes

Bad Wolf is a tiny company, and we tend to do everything ourselves. Our website, for example, was completely put together by me. The only design help was one friend who looked at it a couple of times as it was being built and made small suggestions.

It's a big site and it gets a fair number of visitors, and recently John and I concluded it was time to have some professional help in making it look a little more "real."

It's not hard to find web designers online, and many of them claim that they're used to working with small businesses. That's what we would need, because we certainly don't have the kind of budget that the big companies have. So I started looking at the websites of many design companies and discovered that many of them have terrible designs for their own sites.

If their was a Flash Introduction then I immeadiately crossed that firm off my list. Ditto with companies who had front pages that required me to scroll sideways to read it. It's absolutely incredible how bad many of these sites were.

Several companies had excellent websites, and of course they had links to sites they had designed. So I put together a list of about eight companies whos work seemed strong and filled out their online forms explaining what I was looking for, inviting them to check out our current site and give us a call.

A week later, only one of the eight even bothered to call. And in talking to them, and examining their work, I came to the conclusion that they'd make our site less easy to follow than it is right now.

It's amazing how you can be standing with money in your hand ready to spend and not find anyone who can help you.

More on this soon.