Why Web Design Stopped Being Fun (And How to Get It Back)
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Websites Made Simple: How to have a successful website design business
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Why do web designers fall out of love with their work?
In this episode, I am going to help you to identify the areas you love in your web design business and how to do more of those and less of the stuff that you don't like as much without it breaking the bank and with it making you go on to be a more successful website designer. Ready? Let's get started. Hello and welcome to another episode of Websites Made Simple with me, Holly Christie, your podcast host, your website designer's mentor, and I still have my own successful website design business in Simply Sites and this demanding life as well. And I can assure you that there were many times in my business I was doing all of the things, and I wasn't doing very many of the things. But I did laugh. For a while, I kind of fell out of love with web design.
And I carried on doing it because there was enough about it that kind of kept me there, the income that I'd built, the reputation, all of that. But it took me a while to recognize that I had got too involved in the weeds of the business, in the creating the invoices, in the dealing with clients' difficulties, in the amending the wording in contracts, all the stuff that actually takes us away from the job that we're meant to be doing. And it took a little while, and it took some trial and error to get right, but I did get it right. I now have a business I absolutely love and that is thriving. And I'm here to help you to do the same as well. And the first thing that I would like to say is identify which parts of the business that you really do love because it's going to be different for most people.
For me, I love the design side of things. I always say I get cranky if I don't get to design too much. And obviously, I am fully booked almost all of the time now. And in the times that I wasn't fully booked, I would go and create a new SimpliSites template or something that just helped me not only get some designs out of my head, but every time that we're creating new designs, we are sharpening our skills, we're incorporating new thoughts, new practices, and it's making it stronger for us as well. But not every web designer actually loves the design side of it.
How can I identify the parts of my web design business I truly enjoy?
And there are people out there who much prefer the techie side of it, or who would rather just be doing website maintenance contracts and hosting arrangements and tech setups. And if that's you, I can assure you that you are not the only one. And designers and the techier side of the industry, of designers and developers. Do work really well hand in hand. And actually, it's been a very long time for me that I don't deal with anywhere near as much of a tech as I used to back in the days of my business. And I usually use a technician or a developer to handle things like hosting transfers, website migrations. I was working on a website. recently where I needed some help with some JavaScript and some CSS on a plugin and one of my lovely Sparks members, Rob, who's a senior developer, he came on board and did that.
He always says, I don't want to deal with the design. I only want to deal with the development and making things work. So I would say if you are really into the design side of it, then find yourself a really good techie. You can't have Rob, who's mine, and the rest of our Sparks members, but find yourself a really good techie. And if you are a techie who is bringing in the work but struggling with the design, then you have a couple of options here. There's always going to be a designer who's happy to come on board and sketch out the design. for you. And actually another one of my Sparks members does that. He says that he finds that once someone has started the design, he can kind of go forward and finish it.
But he needs that initial concept to come from someone else. So he has a designer on retainer who does those home pages for him to then take the lead with as well. Another option, if you don't want to have someone on retainer, is that I offer mentoring sessions and I offer one-off sessions for this sort of eventuality, where if you're struggling with the design, then we can spend an hour and a half together going through what it would look like.
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