Yesterday many of the blogs I read were pointing back to post called: Church web designers – Stop Working For Free. I thought it had many great points, as did those who commented on it.
But today I saw an interesting add in one of our local papers (a competitor of my paper, mind you).
The ad copy follows:
WE DO WEB PAGE DESIGN
EMAIL US AT PCSAGE.COM
SERVICE IN YOUR HOME OR OFFICE
SAGE COMPUTERS
PRIDE IN OUR WORK MAKES US GUARANTEE IT!!
Sales, Service, Build, Repair, Upgrade, Software.
The address and phone number are listed below this.
Does anyone else catch the problem here.
A guy is advertising that he designs web pages and yet he doesn’t appear to know the difference between an email address and web page.
That really makes me doubt his experience. Now granted, maybe the paper made the mistake, but I’d demand a free run for sure if that was the case.
Now, I’d like to rip on his website too, but I know that I’ve been so caught up in building websites for paying customers, that quality and update of mine has slipped before. If you look at the website for The Belton Journal you’ll see that we haven’t updated the page in a couple months at least. Sure there are extenuating circumstances. We don’t have the man power to keep a web page updated without any revenue from it. But what does that say about our paper, when we’re still showing old news on our most public front we have?
But it reminds us that if you want people to believe you when you say you know your craft, make sure you do your best on all fronts.
I’m not going to be to interested in hiring a landscaping guy that hasn’t mowed his own lawn in three weeks.
And if you throw a web page together in five minutes and try to convince me you know what you’re doing, you better have a dang good website built in five minutes.
