Contract Services

I use contractors and probably won't change that in the near future. Some are great but, well, it's always the BUT's that make it difficult. I've used one fellow for 18 months that is now defining to me his specs...he won't help with a bid and doesn't want anything unless he can make a grand on it minimum.

Hey, that sounds good, maybe I should tell that to all of my clients, too...well, then I wouldn't have many left, would I?

I've been looking for someone else; amazing how my posts for the position in Denver gets me more response from India than anything close to Colorado.

Guess I want to offer web design and development services for Denver and need someone local to partner for larger jobs; how does that work when your programming partner is 1. Not available 2. Doesn't really speak your language, and...well, guess I don't need a number 3. Exasperating

Barbara Kiebel
Kinetic Webs, LLC
http://www.kineticwebs.com/

Manage your own website

Have you ever lamented about the high cost of making some small (or even not so small) changes to your website. Maybe it's time to think about changing to a system that allows you to do that yourself.

Clients want something that works...most are concerned that anything that would allow them to manage their own site would be too difficult to learn or take too much time. The truth is just the opposite. Most content management systems today have an administrative feature that looks a lot like a Word document.

And time it takes to update; well, unless you have a magic wand and your developer knows what you want to say without direction, you'll have to put it to paper. Might as well type your new content into your website directly and hit 'Save' then send it by email or attachment and then wait days for the results!

Kinetic Webs delivers a content management system with every website we build; we're located in Denver, CO and deliver Denver Web Design projects both locally and across the US.

Barbara Kiebel
President
Kinetic Webs, LLC
www.kineticwebs.com

Web Design or Web Development

OK, I'm writing this out of frustration...seems no one knows the difference between the two. Yea, maybe I'm ticked since I just lost a job to another web 'designer' - she self admittedly acknowledges she DOES NOT KNOW HTML!!!

But what is worse, her not knowing or that her new client doesn't know...the difference - AARGH!

I bet she did deliver a better price, but then they didn't really understand what Content Management means; all they know is that a sister group used her services for their site; so what if it's totally stagnant the day it's done.

Guess it's enough if it's pretty...yippy!!!

Our intent wasn't to make a bunch of money from an org we are a part of; it was to enable them to have a useful site they could manage themselves and not pay someone for every change. Guess it didn't help to just deliver a hard copy proposal and not get to speak to the powers that be; but when the president called me with the news (which included the fact that we not only delivered the MOST PROFESSIONAL proposal, we also had the MOST PROFESSIONAL person answering our phones, all leading to the big BUT - she absolutely did not know what I was talking about when I asked if she could give me some details. Did the winning party provide content management and an email newsletter service as part of the proposal...she wasn't sure.

Anyway...just in the mood to bitch; we all lose jobs and expect that as part of doing business but it seems that people would be catching on to this stuff; Dreamweaver does NOT make a person a web developer, period!

For REAL web development and some great Denver Web Design (!); visit us when you have a chance. My tagline - We build websites so that your neighbor's son doesn't have to!

Barbara Kiebel
Kinetic Webs
Denver, Colorado