So, you’re thinking about building your own website? Congratulations! You’re about to embark on a journey filled with infinite possibilities. Sure, hiring a professional might be faster, easier, and less frustrating, but where’s the fun in that? With so many tools at your fingertips, you can spend your free time discovering the true joys of drag-and-drop builders, troubleshooting errors, and questioning all your life choices.
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It will save you money!
– Website builders like Shopify and Wix are great options. Paying for basic features monthly is way better than owning your site outright. When every new feature you want comes with a price tag, there is no better way to learn the fine art of deciding what you really need?
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You don’t need to worry about how to spend your free time!
-With infinite troubleshooting opportunities you’ll spend hours with Google and YouTube working through basic tutorials. Don’t worry every error message is just a fun new puzzle to investigate. “500 Internal Server Error” is just your site’s way of saying it loves you.
-Who needs downtime when you can spend your Saturday fixing something that “looked fine yesterday”? -
You’ll get a free crash course in web design
-Who doesn’t love spending hours trying to align something perfectly only for it to look completely different on mobile?
-Experiment with all the quirky fonts – Comic Sans and Papyrus are making a comeback!
-Don’t worry about image sizes. They will fit great. Everyone will be looking at your site on a monitor that is exactly the same size as yours.
-Using a drag and drop builder? You can design your dream website… as long as your creativity fits within their templates…and features… and doesn’t require too much customization…
-Speaking of templates-With all the free templates everyone else uses, your website will be just unique enough to confuse visitors about whether they’ve been there before. -
Free anger management training
-How to stay calm when you accidentally delete the home page… twice.
-Using a page builder with an auto-save feature…your accidental changes are safe forever!
-Using a page builder without an auto-save feature…your 3 plus hours of work are gone forever
-You’ll learn so much about yourself, like how much you really value alignment… and how quickly you can spiral into rage over one misbehaving button
-Discover your hidden patience reserves (or lack thereof) as you wait for support tickets to be answered -
Website maintenance is a breeze
-The thrill of keeping your plugins, apps, and themes updated can’t be overstated. Bonus points if an update breaks your entire site!
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DIY Pride
-There’s nothing quite like showing off your site to friends who smile and say, “Oh… I didn’t know you made this…”
At the end of the day, building your own website is about more than just saving money or having creative control. It’s about the journey—the journey of trial, error, and discovering how much coffee you can drink while refreshing your browser. Sure, it’s not perfect, and it might drive you a little mad, but at least you’ll have a website that’s uniquely yours… and hopefully a newfound appreciation for professional web designers.