My Web Design Business

I just launched my web design business based in Lethbridge. This is something I’ve wanted to do since high school.

There’s two types of people in the world: dreamers and doers. I’ve been (and still am to an extent) a dreamer. Dreamers are people with ideas. They’ll tell you about these ideas until the cows come home (I wonder where that expression comes from. Cows don’t graze on their own, but I heard goats do! Maybe it should be “until the goats come home”). Often these ideas are great and if executed properly could turn out to be BIG. However, that’s just it, they don’t execute and let their ideas rot. I’m moving away from being a dreamer to being a doer. Doers execute in rapid succession. While dreamers talk about the awesome they’re going to make, doers are already doing it (and maybe failing and trying again!).

I’ve dreamt of having a web design business since high school. I’ve even got mockups to prove it! I took forever to pick and name then didn’t like it. Took forever to pick another one, registered a domain name. It went stale and I didn’t like that one too. Rinse and repeat. That’s until now. I pray to God that I start becoming more of a doer as dreaming alone leaves you immobile.

Why Google is the BEST

Google has something called Google Webmaster Tools. As the name suggests, they are meant to help webmasters help google discover their websites. I used it, it worked!

That same google page, kindly enough, mentioned that Bing and Yahoo! also have their version of webmaster tools. I tried both of them with nothing but problems! That’s why google is the best. I didn’t think the Google tools were special because they just worked, as expected. This was until I tried Bing and Yahoo! where the tools failed miserably. Especially Bing’s.

In order to keep track of my thoughts on different things I’m working on, I use Google Notebook. So today wanting to jot down some ideas, I logged into notebook and I was greeted with a new note–one that I haven’t written myself. Sure enough, it was advertising! I was totally appalled by this. Google took the liberty to add an ad as a note. Is this any different than SPAM?

Has Google Gone Too Far

The question we have to ask ourselves as we keep moving our data to the cloud is how much are we losing? Is the gain worth the loss of freedom? Also, what’s next from Google? Are they going to start creating messages SPAM in our Gmail accounts on behalf of advertisers. Are they going to start just SPAMMING?! 

I hope my fears are unjustified.