Westsyde Web Designs

Westsyde Web Designs is a small company I started in 1998 when we moved to our current location.

I'd worked full time since I was 18 and was now about to be a stay at home mom.

I started by mainly doing websites for friends and relatives.

People found my web site on the internet and started asking me for quotes.  I had done any advertising but the way I coded my site drew people to me.

Quotes? LOL I had no idea what to charge. At the beginning I bartered my services for things we needed. If it was a photographer, my family had portraits done, etc.

I did provide free estimates eventually and have designed sites for numerous customers. Some have gone out of business and as I explain on my site, to promote your business, you still have to do all the traditional marketing and hard work. Having a web site didn't guarantee that millions of people would see it. I was able to place their web site on the first few pages of Google however, which is almost impossible. Further to the marketing - they didn't really do any marketing on the side and gave up on their dream.

I don't give up though and over the years even though my fibromyalgia would flare up and I would have to stop working on it, it's still up and running...click on my link to check out my site: http://www.westsydewebdesigns.com/