My Background
Web consultant and designer
I am a self-taught web designer, married to a retired retail consultant. Together we run our own ECommerce sites and have over 25 years running online stores.
Site Design Web is the information portal for our existing clients, potential clients, and any interested budding webmasters. If you fall into one or more of those categories, then you're in the right place.
I love building websites, anything to do with design, food and gardening. As a freelance researcher and writer I am well placed to help you with copywriting and seo. If you work with a lot of data, I am equally at home building complex forms or leveraging the power of spreadsheets.
Making life easier for you
My approach to web site design is to make your web site work for you. Creating a website means pulling together a lot of elements, so I've streamlined the process as much as possible and broken it down into manageable chunks to make it less daunting.
Half the work involved in building a web site is work that only you can do. Your web site is all about your story, your personality, and how you engage with your customers, clients or users. Before I can build your site, I need to understand who you are, what you need, and what you have to work with.
We understand small businesses
Our focus is on small to medium sized businesses, start-ups, freelancers and solopreneurs, who stand to benefit from my hands-on experience and tailor-made approach to web designing. I am solutions-based by nature. I have distilled what it takes to build a successful website into clear guidelines that are easy for you to understand and follow.
I always take into account your available resources. It is not a case of how much money you have to invest in your website. How much time do you have to invest in creating and maintaining your site, and how much time should your web site save? How comfortable do you feel about the stuff you have to get together, and how can I make that easier for you? What issues are you facing in your business, which you are hoping the website will help solve?
Who is this site for?
Site Design Web is a place where you can pick up tips and tricks that will hopefully make it easier for you to run your business or organisational website more efficiently and effectively. If you like the way I work and want to hire me to work with you on your web site then that would be great. If you're looking to build your own site and find the site useful, then great.
Anyone considering investing in a website needs to understand how to assess the return on their investment. You probably cannot afford your website to be a vanity project. You need clear guidelines that help you balance your available time and resources against the benefits that a website can provide.
If you are juggling your time and cash; if you cannot afford to take your eye off the ball; and want to invest your resources wisely, then this site is for you.
Stuff I like
Apart from web and graphic design I like researching, writing, cooking and gardening. I speak Dutch as a second language and am a bit of a magpie when it comes to collecting ingredients and graphic assets so I can experiment with new ideas.
