Still Doing Web Development

About a year ago I swore MWI would never do web development (i.e. web programming, .net development, php programming, java, database stuff, content management, ecommerce, etc.) ever again. After all, web development is time consuming, lower margin, and harbors loads of potential for things to go wrong. Designing a website is much easier, goes fast, and 99% of our clients absolutely love the design work we do for them. SEO is even better, in that it’s all results-oriented, it’s recurring revenue, and as long as we deliver results our clients are happy. It’s not subjective like design–either we deliver or we don’t, so the objectives are clear.

So we removed any trace of web development services from the website, referred our programming clients to other web development firms, and decided to focus on web design and SEO. A year later and here we are still doing programming projects. Right now we’re working on an ecommerce site for a client who will be selling tungsten rings online, a content management system with custom integration to a third-party software package for a self-storage company in Southern California, and we’ve done a number of other programming projects as well. In fact, we might be doing more programming right now than we were doing a year ago.

That said, I’m still not going to put any word about programming back on the website. We do it and we’re happy to do it, it’s just not the direction I want MWI to grow in. I still say web design and search engine optimization are the way to go.