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It’s been an ongoing debate for years. Does design really matter? Specifically, will a nice professional website design make a difference for your business?

I’ve been wanting to write a post about this for so long, I couldn’t remember if I actually did or didn’t and had to search through our archives just to check. Turns out, I did! Back in March 2006. Woo, how time flies! I find it funny and yet kind of sad that this is still such a hot topic. But, now I want to expand more on my earlier thoughts.

Let me just say, “This project was so much fun!!”. Ok, now I have that off my chest, I can continue!

Daniel Bird approached us because he needed branding and a new website for his new business. Memory Keepers, located in Dallas Texas, preserves old photos into digital format. What makes them different, is that they travel right to the customer’s house to scan the photos rather than having clients send in their precious photos by mail.

A few weeks ago… Er, more than a few weeks ago, I posted a blog post on why designers should use wireframes. I have always used Photoshop to do more formal wireframes for client sites, but wanted to give Balsamiq a try since I first heard about it. They were gracious enough to give me a copy to review. By the way, they are incredibly friendly and fast responding.

Naomi Dunford, whom I affectionately like to refer to as my tocaya, approached us because she felt that the original IttyBiz site was no longer representing her thriving business. IttyBiz has grown exponentially since starting and she wanted to focus more on her marketing and small business help products and courses and not mainly on her blog like before, while still keeping the blog visible.

Doing a wireframe before each web site design is a crucial step. Actually, it’s more than crucial. Let’s put it this way, I divide my own work into two distinct periods. The “before the wireframing phase” and the “after I discovered the glorious virtues of wireframing” phase. I do one now for every single project, even the most basic ones.