Being one of those people that likes to figure things out for themselves, I worked on my sites, trying new things, until I found solutions that worked.

I have been at this for a long time now. Since 2001 in fact. (Long before responsive design). You can learn a lot in 20 years if you try.

I started out building html sites but quickly moved to data driven sites because I needed to pull content from a database. That meant learning how to build a database, and write code. I spent many years working in ASP and ASP.NET. Soon after that I began working in design and marketing.

Back then the majority of marketing was learning how to manipulate search engines. Thankfully Google wised up and forced us to be honest with our marketing. How a site ranks has a lot to do with how you run your business which brings me to messaging.

Marketing is great, but messaging is a million times more important.  You no longer need tons of content in order for your site to do well. You just need to have a clear message about what you do and why it is important. 

So this is my focus with design and content–to make your message more clear.