We’ve all been in this situation before: We create websites with great, fresh content, and then never look at the site again. We work long hours trying to finish up the website, and secretly hope that we’ll never have to make another change to the site for at least a year or two!

I have been there. In fact, you could even say that I “am there”. You see, since starting Digital Mantis, I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to work with several wonderful clients. As a result I have been very busy working as hard as I can to ensure that each client is delivered exactly what I promise them (and hopefully even more!), and I leave myself very little time to concentrate on updating the Digital Mantis website.

Yes, I do appreciate the irony associated with being a web designer who has trouble maintaining their own website, yet I don’t think that my situation is very uncommon. The fact is, I have been involved with many projects where websites are created as static entities, and they offer little room for growth. And you know what? More often than not, this is an effective way to approach website building.

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