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When will people realize, you get what you pay for!…

You wouldn’t let your nephew be your accountant, so why would you hire him to build your website? That’s pretty much the question Todd Malicoat is asking with his latest post titled “You wear a suit to work, but let your nephew design your website?…

[...] You wouldn’t let your nephew be your accountant, so why would you hire him to build your website? That’s pretty much the question Todd Malicoat is asking with his latest post titled “You wear a suit to work, but let your nephew design your website?” I still just don’t get why people want to cheap out on web design. If you can spend several hundred dollars on a nice suit, you understand why it’s important to make an impression. Why is that so difficult to translate to the web? …. [...]

[...] Todd Malicoat is asking “You wear a suit to work, but let your nephew design your website?” If you can spend several hundred dollars on a nice suit, you understand why it’s important to make an impression. Why is that so difficult to translate to the web? [...]

[...] Super-smart Todd Malicoat asks the pointed question, “You Wear a Suit to Work, but Let Your Nephew Design Your Website?” [...]

[...] Rand McCarley, of 14th Colony Scout, lists his 13 reasons web sites fail, following up on Todd Malicoat’s You Wear a Suit to Work, but let Your Nephew Design Your Website?. Both posts are getting at the same important point: professionalism is a critical part of web site development. [...]

[...] There seems to be a crop of SEO Consultants popping up everyday. Unfortunately, not alot have very much experience and even more, seem to be “my neighbors” son. Have we all heard this one before? I think it was true when web design started to become “cheap”. Cheap SEO is just like Cheap Web Design. You get what you pay for. Theres alot of work that goes into web design when it’s done right. Marketing, branding, lead generation….the days are gone when you let “Billy” create a framed website for your business. [...]

[...] By the time you’re finished spending your third round of monies set aside for SEO, you could have spent it once on a reputable company. I guess some people will never get it.……I wonder if he’ll find another “purple coat hanger“? My guess is yes… [...]

I find it funny with web design people or for that matter with any one who provides a service. The first thing they say is “You get what you pay for” What the hell is that supposed to mean. I am a marketing manager for a large fortune 200 company and every day I deal with the web BS. Web providers who what to charge an arm and a leg for services rendered. With every web designer and service provider they always make me jump through rings just to get something done or God forbid changed. I mean come on already WTF you guys are not that special. The same advancement in technology that has allowed you to have a career. Is now finally letting us as managers take control of how and what we publish. How many of you guys say “Oh yea I can do video work” but have no clue of what you are doing. How do you think the video guys feel? You go in on a bid and under bid a professional now he loses work. Just because you have premiere and a DV camera you think you can be a video producer. It is technology at work. It happened with music back in the 80s with midi and it as happened again with mp3 music. People actually think that is good quality music. That is also technology at work. So please get off your high horse you bunch of hypocrites and understand my nephew can do a better job then you because technology lets him. The same technology now lets me manage the sites that way they need to be managed with marketing, creativity and with no BS from the web master. OMFG give me a break.

Well, I couldn’t afford a North American company to do my web design. Not only that, they were promising a lot,but had nothing to show for the money they were asking. I knew it’s extremely important to have a good one,to succeed. I instead, hired a company from one of those ‘3′d world” countries.

I was one of those “nephews” that designed a website for my uncle when I got started years ago haha, but I actually did a great job and completely get what you’re saying.

I think the problem is people don’t understand what it really takes to make a good site. As a professional site developer now, I hear clients tell me they would “do it themselves, but they don’t have time” or “can’t you just change the colors really quick in paint or something?”

Yeah…