Why I’m Not a Web Designer (Anymore)

Back in the day, I got involved with web design because I saw, and still see, the web as another publishing medium. We didn’t have html editors then, and I learned some code.

From time-to-time I’d take on a client and do their websites, and it drove me nuts! Or they drove me nuts, or something. So much of good web design is about graphics, and graphics are much more a matter of taste than words, or at least it seems that way to me. And it can be difficult to separate the writing from the design if you’re trying to do both, which I was.

It seemed to me that clients who want web design always wanted something changed, added, subtracted – without additional pay. When I look back, I realize a lot of that was my fault and the contracts I created. None-the-less, it became a huge paid for me.

So now I do content only! Except for me, that is. I haven’t yet figured out how to work with a webmaster and still do content on the fly – blogs are set up that way, but with websites… I don’t know how to split it.

I’ve just spent several delightful mornings designing and redesigning the new Writing With Vision site… I’m almost there. And it’s time for me to get back to words, my stock and trade. Writing is my passion; design is just for fun and a good break once and awhile.

Write well and often,

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