05/28/2026
A lot of women come to me with DIY websites that started out as a “simple weekend project.”
Which is usually adorable in hindsight.
It starts innocently enough. You pick a template, change a few colors, and tell yourself you’re “just gonna tweak a few things.”
Then six months later, you still have twelve tabs open, three fonts you’re emotionally attached to for no reason, and a homepage you’ve rewritten seventeen times.
At first it really does feel simple.
Then suddenly you’re deep in a spiral moving sections up and down by three pixels trying to figure out why the site still doesn’t feel right.
And honestly, most of the time the problem is not the template.
Usually it’s because the foundational pieces were never fully clear before the design started.
The messaging is still evolving, the goals of the website are fuzzy, and the brand itself hasn’t been fully nailed down yet.
So instead of building strategically, you just keep redesigning the same pages over and over hoping the next tweak finally fixes it.
In this post, I’m sharing 3 things I really recommend figuring out before starting a website project because it makes the entire process so much smoother and helps your website actually function like a strategic business tool instead of an endless unfinished project.
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