You can afford a high-quality website, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to maintain it!

Several years ago, I was maintaining websites for a dozen or so film actors and a few businesses, and it occurred to me that some of my clients were allowing their websites to become obsolete simply because they didn't want to spend the money to have me make changes for them.That is, these people paid good money to have me create a website for them and then they allowed it to become almost worthless, simply because they didn't want to pay more money to keep the site fresh. Sometimes an outdated, obsolete website can be far worse than not having one at all - a website that's obviously outdated says, "I don't really care that much, I'm just going through the motions."

That really bothered me, because I felt that my reputation was being compromised by my company name appearing on a product of questionable quality. But I couldn't do the maintenance work without being paid - I'm in business, after all, to make money. I began to wonder if there weren't some way to provide websites that my clients could maintain on their own, without paying a webmaster (or me!) to do that work. I had some experience with just such a product, created for churches - that is, churches could buy a website (albeit with limited functionality) and have someone in the congregation maintain it, adding announcements, photos, etc. I contacted the people who were marketing the church websites and asked them if they'd be interested in creating a product similar to their church websites, only these would be used by those in the entertainment business.

With the help of a remarkable programmer/designer, we developed a website that could indeed be maintained by most anyone with basic computer skills (email, word processing). But these sites had a very high degree of functionality - they incorporated virtually everything an entertainer would want and need in a website, from a resume builder to easy-to-use audio/video controls. That product, which I formerly marketed as "MyActingWebsite," was a huge success, and we built on the success of the initial offering by making enhancements as time went on.

After a while, it became obvious that there were other market segments that fit the same criteria as entertainers: dynamic market conditions that required rapid changes to websites on a frequent basis, but without the expense of having a dedicated "webmaster." Real estate professionals were our next market, and we developed a product that allows real estate agents, brokers and builders to quickly and easily build and maintain attractive, yet highly functional websites. From there we went to talent/modeling agencies, web catalog merchants, auto dealers, non-profit organizations and funeral homes. It occurred to me that, although our product had been developed to address very narrow market segments, they could also be used by most any business to create and maintain robust, highly functional websites.

Today we serve clients in markets as diverse as physicians, consulting firms, attorneys, schools, fraternal organizations, manufacturers, artisans and many others. Even highly skilled information technology professionals prefer our method of creating websites, because it allows them to focus on the content of the site, rather than the technology used to put it online. That translates into more bang for the buck, and we enjoy a stellar reputation for providing websites that are state-of-the-art as well as easy-to-use, functional yet affordable. Take a look around and see if you don't think that StevesIdeas can provide the website you have been wanting. To learn more about websites for your particular need, click the links above; and I'd love to talk to you, just give me a call, or drop me an email and we'll see what StevesIdeas can do for you.

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