Webfocusdesign​.com Version 4 is Online

Earlier this week I finally pub­lished the new ver­sion of my Web design busi­ness site, web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com which I’ve worked at on and off for sev­eral months now. The site finally reflects my cur­rent com­pany brand­ing and sports the same visual iden­tity as my busi­ness card, invoices and other client fac­ing print mate­ri­als. It also finally show­cases some of my recent and ongo­ing projects unlike the pre­vi­ous ver­sion of the site whcih had projects that were at least 2 or 3 years old in the port­fo­lio and didn’t reflect where I or Webfocus Design are at now. After going free­lance full time in mid August, I finally feel like I am in it com­pletely and it feels very good.

Like many design­ers out there, I find it very hard to design for myself. A per­sonal site like pix­e­lyzed can be and was a fun endeavor to cre­ate but a busi­ness site has to have much more clearly defined goals and fol­low a more rig­or­ous process. Furthermore, writ­ing mar­ket­ing copy for our­selves is very dif­fi­cult for a lot of us. But I had a lot of help for that and I would espe­cially want to thank Erica Holden who has helped me write much bet­ter copy with more impact than what I already had. Her pro­fes­sion­al­ism and enthu­si­asm have made this tedious writ­ing process a lot eas­ier for me as she took a large part of it upon her­self. Erica, you rock!

Many of my other Twitter friends have been great help towards the end of the process when came time to tweak func­tion­al­ity and test in var­i­ous browsers. I have yet to imple­ment some of the sug­ges­tions I’ve had.

The site is not quite com­plete yet as I left a few areas unfin­ished in order to go back to client work. I still need to flesh out the port­fo­lio and add the online ver­sion of my Project Planner. I also want to add a blog for my clients and that one will be in both French and English. Those will be done as I have time over the com­ing weeks. But even in an unfin­ished state, this is the best ver­sion of web​fo​cus​de​sign​.com I’ve designed so far and I’m very proud of it. I finally feel like I’m really in business…

So thanks again to all who have encour­aged me to fin­ish what I started months ago. I hope to be able to repay your kind­ness by some­how help­ing you with your own projects some­day. Social media can be so much more than buzz­words and forced “viral” marketing…