web production

“Why do websites cost so much? All I want is something simple!” This is something I hear often from potential clients of small businesses that need their first website. Given the ease to produce rather nice looking websites these days, with Wordpress and the many free or cheap themes out there, it’s a reasonable question. Why should I pay a couple hundred dollars or several thousand for something that I can get for free?

#1 – You Don’t Want Simple

Do you want your site to look like Craigslist? Chances are, even though it’s worked well for them, you have something spiffier in mind. If not, there are free tools with Microsoft and Google and Wordpress and others for creating barebone sites with little pizzazz. Some – and I’ll add them in when I review them in a future post– offer much more pizzazz. But regardless, most clients want a nice design. And often they want a unique design, until they see the costs involved with that.

“Jon Bostwick,” a media darling and up-and-comer in the close-knit web production world, recently unveiled a new website that is sure to stun its fans and shock its critics. Known for its conservative, stock Drupal templates, Jon Bostwick has a bold new color scheme for, dare we say it, a new generation?

Jon Bostwick, the creator of this unique site, a man with a unique style and a unique flair for the dramatic, lived in perpetual frustration over his site’s blah personality. “I have an amazing personality,” Jon confessed, “and this site with its generic themes was a rain cloud in my otherwise sunny disposition. I needed a change, and when it became obvious that no one was going to make it for me, I looked it in the eye and said, ‘You are mine.’”