A New Things With Pixels
Things With Pixels has had a few different incarnations over the year, as my own personal site and weblog. Well, now things are changing up quite a bit: Things With Pixels is now my own web studio, offering website design and custom application programming. It’s only me at the moment working virtually from my cozy home office. However, I’m happy to offer full service design and development using tools like Photoshop, a text editor and my huge brain.
So what are you doing, exactly?
I’m solving your problems, that’s what. Not in the psychological sense, or in the sense that the sink in your upstairs bathroom leaks if you don’t turn the knob really tight. I’m solving your technology and design problems. I can meet with you, listen intently while you explain your needs and the needs of your business, then tell you what you probably want to do. If you like what I have to say, I can help design, develop and deploy those solutions.
At a glance, I’m a traditional web designer working in Photoshop, but also a crack code expert who can build an application using Ruby on Rails or your typical LAMP stack. I’ve got one foot in both the creative and engineering realms. I’m strange like that.
Why start a business in this economy?
Sure, I could sit in a cube all day collecting a paycheck at the end of the week. But that’s boring, and makes me sleepy. There’s way too many exciting things going on in the tecnology world these days to idle away in a cubicle somewhere. The decision to strike out on my own wasn’t just out of a desire to be self-employed, but to find the freedom and time to pursue the things that make living in 21st century really exciting. I want to spend more time writing code, sharpen my design skills, and help people and companies take advantage of all the fine things the internet has to offer.
Why should I hire you?
It’s really easy to make bad technology decisions - not because you’ve been lied to, or because you don’t understand the terminology, but because doing technology right is just hard. You need someone who knows the landscape, and who can translate business requirements into usable solutions. Obviously, I’m just one guy with a keyboard, so I may not always be the right choice. But for small businesses looking to stay small, startups who need a technology parter, or other companies looking for help on a project, I might be the perfect choice.