In part 1 of this series, I covered the reasons why website development can seem so expensive. In part 2, I showed you a website design project that went wrong, where it went wrong, and how it was ultimately salvaged and made profitable. Now, in this final post, let's go back in time to the beginning of the project and reset things with both the caterer and the first designer partnering to take...

In part one, I talked about why web designers charge what they do for seemingly "simple" websites. That notion of "simple" probably comes from the idea that if I can type text and drag and drop images into a Word document, then how hard could building a website be? Trust me. I've been building websites for over 22 years now. It's not at all like Word, so it's harder to build a website than even...

You may have wondered: Why do web designers charge so much for a "simple" website? You may have also believed that a website is an expense to be minimized, not an investment to be maximized. I get it. I've heard this sentiment dozens of times. It usually goes something like this. "I sent out my request for proposal to see how much I'd be charged to have someone else do it for me. Looks like I...