Comments on: The Secret to Cheap and Easy Websites http://www.sixtysecondtech.com/2008/03/02/the-secret-to-cheap-and-easy-websites/ Life is too short to spend it keeping up with technology. Sixty Second Tech gives you short, concise, ideas, tips or descriptions of new technologies so you can look like a hero at work and still have plenty of time to enjoy life. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:28:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cheap website design http://www.sixtysecondtech.com/2008/03/02/the-secret-to-cheap-and-easy-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-114 Cheap website design Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:52:47 +0000 http://www.sixtysecondtech.com/2008/03/02/the-secret-to-cheap-and-easy-websites/#comment-114 Hello, i believe that i noticed you visited my website thus i got here to return the desire?.I'm attempting to to find things to enhance my site!I guess its good enough to use a few of your ideas!! Hello, i believe that i noticed you visited my website thus i got here to return the desire?.I’m attempting to to find things to enhance my site!I guess its good enough to use a few of your ideas!!

]]> By: Cal Evans http://www.sixtysecondtech.com/2008/03/02/the-secret-to-cheap-and-easy-websites/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Cal Evans Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:53:35 +0000 http://www.sixtysecondtech.com/2008/03/02/the-secret-to-cheap-and-easy-websites/#comment-2 @SpaceNinja, (Regarding the comment over on iTunes) I do respect how this episode could be interpreted as telling people that they don't need a designer; however that was not the intent. (It is a shortcoming of the 60 second format that I can't cover the topic in the depth that it sometimes deserves.) I think that both designers and programmers are not only necessary, they are important. However, I also know that there are times when people just need to get something up there. I've seen too many designers and programmers - both professional and amatuer - miss what a client was saying and deliver a project that while beautiful, feature rich, missed the point of what the client needed, which was simple and NOW. Wordpress makes an excellent, simple CMS. There are many plugins available for it and lot of free and not free themes. It makes a great platform to get up and running on. In almost every case where I've deployed Wordpress and a free skin, the client has wanted to spend a few dollars extra and have a designer step in and create a custom theme. I'm always happy to point them in the right direction. In the interest of total disclosure, I'm married to a web designer, <a href="http://kathyevans.biz" rel="nofollow">the lovely and talented Kathy</a>, so it's a real bad idea for me to be too hard on designers. :) Thanks for the comment, I hope you will continue to listen and if you've got further comments, feel free to post them here we everybody can discuss them. =C= @SpaceNinja,
(Regarding the comment over on iTunes)

I do respect how this episode could be interpreted as telling people that they don’t need a designer; however that was not the intent. (It is a shortcoming of the 60 second format that I can’t cover the topic in the depth that it sometimes deserves.)

I think that both designers and programmers are not only necessary, they are important. However, I also know that there are times when people just need to get something up there. I’ve seen too many designers and programmers – both professional and amatuer – miss what a client was saying and deliver a project that while beautiful, feature rich, missed the point of what the client needed, which was simple and NOW.

WordPress makes an excellent, simple CMS. There are many plugins available for it and lot of free and not free themes. It makes a great platform to get up and running on. In almost every case where I’ve deployed WordPress and a free skin, the client has wanted to spend a few dollars extra and have a designer step in and create a custom theme. I’m always happy to point them in the right direction.

In the interest of total disclosure, I’m married to a web designer, the lovely and talented Kathy, so it’s a real bad idea for me to be too hard on designers. :)

Thanks for the comment, I hope you will continue to listen and if you’ve got further comments, feel free to post them here we everybody can discuss them.

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