We all know that St Simons Island, GA is a great place to live, and if you didn’t know that, then now you do.  It’s a terrific little island just north of Jacksonville, Florida that seems to lag behind the times when it comes to the ever evolving modernity of urban life.  Now, in no way am I saying that St Simons has ever been urban – far from it actually – but it does represent a population of transplants and drifters from all over the US, especially urban areas.  Sometimes it seems like people here would love to have the urban lifestyle, yet mostly everyone settles for the small town, quaint island life that is truly indicated by the 7 degrees of seperation that everyone has in common.  Actually, it’s more like 3 degrees of seperation around here – everyone seems to know everyone in one way, shape, or form. Either a friend of a friend or a co-worker of your friend will seem to know someone else on the island! But my point that I am trying to make through all this is – St Simons businesses, for the most part, have TERRIBLE websites. Like websites that were built by 9th graders in 1997.  Yea, that bad.  And the reason that I hate it for them – is that these businesses are fantastic! There are some excellent little stores and some pretty good size businesses on this island that just have bad looking, poorly developed websites.  It’s my belief that a website should represent a company’s brand image and offer useful information to the customer.  Well, it’s a shame at what some of the local businesses websites offer around here.

Now, you might be asking, “is he knocking other local web designers?”  Maybe.  I don’t personally know any other web designers on the island, but if they haven’t updated the look of their clients’ websites by now, then they are just stealing money from them.  It’s ok to lag behind the times when it comes to urban sprawl and pace of life around here – but the web isn’t waiting for anyone.  It will always keep moving and if you aren’t moving with it – you’re standing still on a busy highway.

Anyway, that’s my take and I’m gonna continue to learn as much as I can and make better and better websites.

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