I undertook a monumental task last week. *drum roll, please* I built a website!
At the end of May, I purchased a domain for my business. (For all the non-techies, the domain is kind of another name for the website address. Not that simple, but good enough. 
) For awhile, I had a generic design that really didn’t reflect me or my business. In other words, I wasn’t happy with it but didn’t know what to do.
In July, my brother, having complete faith in his sister’s abilities (or lack thereof), bought me a belated birthday present of two HTML books. (Again, non-techies, HTML is what websites are made of. It’s a programming language.) I looked at them a couple of times, but never made the commitment to studying them. Besides, it looked HARD!
Last week, I finally committed myself to sitting down and making some sense of it all. Tuesday evening I skimmed through the 500+ page tutorial book taking mental notes of things I needed to know.
Wednesday afternoon, I sat down with my template, modified it, and started building the site. Talk about EASY! Once I understood the concepts of how HTML and CSS worked together, things flowed.
So, why am I bragging? Um, well… because I can? Actually, not really, although that sounds good.
The company that hosts my site (non-techies: that means the place that has the computers where my website is stored and operates from) has different offers as part of the hosting deal. One of the offers was for crawling and search engine optimization. Okay, explanation – when you use Google, the sites that are crawled the most and have SEO show up at the top of the list. I submitted my newly re-designed site.
On Monday, I got a phone call from the crawling/SEO company. They do some of the things for free, but they also have packages that you can purchase. The sales guy was nice – I could tell he was genuine and that he understood what he was talking about (no reading scripts for him – a huge plus in my book! Oh, and he spoke English.).
What? You want to know why I’m bragging? Oh yeah. Well, this nice sales guy who spends all day looking at websites commented that the site looked great. He asked who built the site, and I humbly responded, “Me.”
He asked if I had made other sites, and again, I humbly told him that this was the first one. To say he was impressed was an understatement. I did confess that I started with a template, but he said that with the time that it took me to do it and with everything working nicely, it was amazingly good. *patting self on back*
So without further ado, click here to visit Skala Creative LLC. The site is fully functional – including that awesome “Contact Us” page with the annoying-to-design form. However, the portfolio is empty since I still have to figure out the best way to upload and lay out the page.
When the portfolio is finished, I’m planning a giveaway, so stay tuned!
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Wow! I’m impressed! Looks very professional.
I can not believe you made that. I am SO impressed. Holy Canoli.