Web design

I'm about to part with my money, my purchase, and that purchase, even if it's a property one, I'm about to drop in a couple of million dollars on X, Y, or Z. I can't be taking risks.

So what causes distrust, especially when it comes to websites and web design? Even the little things.

I'll give you a couple that we just recently picked up on one particular client.

Skewed images.

Yeah, add a few blinches, because it's quite interesting, anyway, for...

I'd love to get your thoughts on just one more thing, because we talked briefly about a couple of examples of errors that can perhaps turn people off on a web page.

I'd like to get your quick perspective on the way that web design is evolving, because if you have a look at WordPress themes or different website styles, they... to a certain degree, stay the same, but also evolve as well.

Could you maybe talk a little bit about some elements of website design that are particularly hot and look modern and relevant for 2026 and perhaps three or four years ago wouldn't have been used and perhaps an element from three or four years ago that you wouldn't want to incorporate in a website nowadays?

And yeah, I'm pretty clear and upfront about, I don't have a mission statement or values per se, but in my podcast, which is my number one attractor to web designer pro.

is that the tagline of my podcast, the web design business podcast is helping you build your web design business that gives you freedom and a lifestyle you love.

So that right there, and I end up using that for the tagline and heading for Web Designer Pro, because I really want people to come in who are yes, driven, and they're down to hustle a little bit and to work hard.

We are hard workers, we know this isn't easy, we're going to work our asses off.

I guess I'm way more qualified and even a better fit for so many people at different levels because I have my experience.

And like I just said, the experience of all these other hundreds of people and I can spot gaps.

faster than I'd say just about anybody as a web design business coach, which is like official role in pro.

And one thing I've learned too, is we were just talking about this recently, actually a few coaching members I've talked to about transparently, how is my coaching still helping you at this level? And one thing I've realized is if you look at any professional athlete, everybody at the top has a coach.

Yeah, you have to balance the math at it.

I mean, for me, like my goal was, can you get an entire website design done for five bucks? Because I think if you have a full web design done, then it's very much like the Fiverr model, where it was just like, hey, we'll get you a web design in five bucks.

And that felt like great value.

In the same way, I feel like you have these platforms and yeah, you're paying token cost, but what you're getting out of them hopefully is so worth it.

But what I was going to say is that I was baked into that.

Like I was on the homepage of my, of Unified Web Design.

I was like the guy, you know, and my bio was there, like, this is who you're working with.

And then I made the transition at some, as I started building a team, like, Okay, well, also someday I want to maybe, you know, hand over my business to somebody else someday or whatever.

Things grow out of other things.

Like e- even like, okay, use myself as an example again, web design development.

Yeah.

I didn't just-

Yeah

... one day wake up and I'm gonna do web design and development.

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Yeah.