I am pleased to announce the new website design for Get Off My Lawn Entertainment!<\/p>\n
The old template was something quick that I found when I first set things up because I am not a web developer (in fact I have quite the aversion to it).\u00a0 The plan was to then get someone to make up a site for the business.\u00a0 That didn’t seem to happen very quickly … or at all really.\u00a0 I had already done a quick layout of how I wanted things to look for myself, and created some of the art, I just needed to hand it to someone to actually code it.\u00a0 A couple of things got in the way.\u00a0 I really didn’t know where to find someone to actually do web development for me.\u00a0 Not that I couldn’t find one through a quick search, but I didn’t know where to look for someone that I could trust to have the skills to do it quick, at a reasonable price, and to hash out some more of the fine details of my quick layout.
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The biggest problem of all I think was time.\u00a0 Just the time to look for someone to do things, or the time to set everything up with them, or bad timing in general, etc.\u00a0 One friend was too busy to help out at one point, another was off on vacation when I went to ask him.\u00a0 Each time it would go through my head that I’ll find someone for it next week, or I’ll wait until someone was ready.\u00a0 Well there’s always one thing or another in the way!<\/p>\n
Time dragged on, and it became almost embarrassing for myself because I still didn’t have the proper site up.\u00a0 Eventually it got up to 8 months later and I finally said screw it, I’ll do it myself.\u00a0 And that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for the past 10 days, learning how to code in html, php, css, and wordpress.\u00a0 I’m actually extremely happy with the results too.\u00a0 However, I’m sure that’s just inexperienced web-coder Chris talking, and I just don’t know what the problems are yet.\u00a0 Whereas someone with say, more than 10 days experience, might see some other problems immediately.\u00a0 Regardless, I’m still happy \ud83d\ude42 .\u00a0 As well it is always a good feeling to ‘finish’ a task, so that’s one more checkmark today.<\/p>\n
The ultimate question: should I have done it and was it worth it? No! and sorta.\u00a0 In comparison, purchasing another theme would’ve cost me maybe $10-$50? But that wouldn’t have necessarily displayed things the way I wanted.\u00a0 Pay to have one specifically made – I think $1000-$1500 were a couple of the numbers I saw.\u00a0 I wasn’t really prepared to pay $1500 for things though because 1. that’s a decent amount of money for an indie starting out on web design, 2. I already had the majority of the layout and art planned and done, and I didn’t think it was more than $500, which I would’ve happily paid.\u00a0 Instead, I spent the last week+ (40-60 hours maybe?) learning things and coding it myself. I’m cheap labour!\u00a0 From a business standpoint, web development is not a core competency and the time spent on it was not worth it, when the work could’ve been purchased instead.<\/p>\n
Now the good side of all of this is that I’m now familiar with the code for the website, and if there’s any other small quick changes I can likely pop in there and figure out what to do. Oh and I’m not down $1500, just time.\u00a0 Should I be spending my time in the future making those changes, even after I just said I shouldn’t have this time? I think the answer is simple, I’m a one man team at this point, and when you’re bootstrapping a new business you have to wear a lot of hats.\u00a0 Well today I made my own hat and I’ll be able to fix it up to look and fit just how I want in the future.\u00a0 So I feel good, and that’s all that matters at the end of today.<\/p>\n
Hope you like the new site design.\u00a0 If there are any problems or suggestions please shoot me a comment,\u00a0 thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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