Website design.

This sure has been a Summer of trying all sorts of new things. I'm not about to stop anytime soon. I've really enjoyed documenting all my new adventures here, and I hope you've enjoyed reading along with me as I learn. Maybe I've even taught you a few things :)

For those of you who don't know, I am a graphic designer. I consider myself mildly creative and my style is very clean and fresh. I feel like I have a lot to offer potential customers of mine when it comes to logo design and promotional material creations.

But... I don't do websites.

Until now.....

I'd really love to expand my freelance business, and in the current market, digital marketing really is the most effective way of reaching customers. SO - I hate am forcing myself to love website design.

I've thought for a long time how I can venture into this world of website design. After talking to some fellow graphic designers and friends, I've decided to jump into it with both feet. I will now be offering my customers basic website design. Until I get more comfortable with it all, I can't make huge promises to anyone. However, I have no doubt that I'll pick up the knowledge quickly and be a pro in no time!

My first website customer is a new gym coming to Goshen. The owners are friends of mine and they've agreed to be my test-the-waters-and-build-a-website guinea pigs. Their address is www.iconfitnessclub.com. Keep in mind the site is under construction (and, well, built by a newb... ME!) so don't judge too harshly.

While designing this site, I've made decisions about fonts and concept and layout, etc. It reminded me of a graphic I saw a while ago on Freshlime Digital Marketing's website.

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I don't plan to include flashing graphics or highlighted text or slow loading images, so I think I'm safe with this first site. It still has lots of tweaking to be done, but for my first site, I'd say it's not bad.

Visit www.angeladeak.com if you're interested in checking out my personal website that includes some of my graphic design work.

Happy Monday!

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