Dear Everyone

Here’s a list of some of the perks of having a text-based website.

• A text-based website is launched immediately. Not tomorrow, not after breakfast, now.

• A text-based website places focus solely on stuff that matters: who are you, what do you do, why should I work with you, are you available, where can I contact you. 

• A text-based website is fully responsive.

• A text-based website is fully accessible.

• A text-based website loads fast as hell.

• A text-based website gets near-perfect scores on PSI, GTMetrix, etc.

• A text-based website doesn’t require you to make professional design decisions. If you’re not a professional designer, making those decisions can compromise your site and make it look bad. If you are a professional, having too many design choices can cause you to freeze (should I pick this template, or that template, or this font, or these colors, etc.).

• A text-based website doesn’t require a laptop/desktop at any stage of the process. You can purchase, launch, and edit your website from a phone/tablet just as easily as you can do it with a computer.

• A text-based website works on all browsers. Yep, even people stuck using Internet Explorer (for whatever reason).

• A text-based website gives you more bandwidth to spend time/effort/money on the things that often get sacrificed in a web design (and arguably matter more than aesthetics for the site visitor): marketing, analytics, writing, collecting useful resources, making connections, structuring your offerings.

• A text-based website doesn’t require users to learn how to navigate your website. By putting your information front-and-center, you’re making life way easier for the visitors who really want/need to connect with you and couldn’t care less what your website looks like (this isn’t everybody, but it’s not nobody)