TommyCarey
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I was looking through a few of my websites and I was thinking "Wow, these all look pretty awesome. I would have had to pay thousands per design if I hired a design company to do these." And then I was thinking that web design companies might be taking a bigger hit each year since website builders and premium themes are just getting more and more popular as time goes on.
How many times have you paid a website designer to actually put together a custom design for you? If you're like me, you probably don't do it very often because there are cheaper routes to take that have the same, if not better results.
The last time I hired a designer, or team of them, to do a website for me was probably 10 years ago. I pretty much got taken advantage of and dropped $2,000 on a horrible design that could have been done in a day, but took 2 months. I could have very easily went to a website builder and done the same thing on my own and it would have been free. I could have actually paid for any upgrades to the free builder and it would have been 10 time cheaper than what I was charged 
I'm also a big fan of wordpress themes, which you already know if you have been following some of my previous posts over the last 6 months I have about 20 websites now that all have premium wordpress themes that I customized for my niche. And I saved the themes so I can use them whenever I want for new websites lol
Before I ramble off, do you think that it's possible for web design companies to be obsolete by 2025 or do you think there will still be a place for them?
I personally think they will be obsolete since all these free website builders are now advertising on TV and all the search engines. I've yet to see a private design company advertise on TV and that may be the thing that is going to kill them in the long run. Sure it cost a lot more to advertise on TV, but you're getting the newer website owners to migrate over to you, the ones that don't know any better lol. Get all the new users in and make a buck off of them before they know what's good and you can rinse/repeat that until the end of time.
I personally hate website builders because everything always looks too cookie cutter and templated.
What do you think?
Will web design companies start struggling soon or do you think they will thrive over the years?
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The thing is about those [b]drag n' drop website builders[/b] which I never used to like is, they leave such messy code! I guess that side of it might have improved a bit more today. I don't know because I haven't used them much for myself or for others. I've used several of those [b]Web 2.0 site[/b] ones like [b]Wix[/b] for example. But from what I remember of that and other website builder sites is that since the different parts are basically slapped together. It wont past [b]W3C validation[/b]. This is [b]bad bad SEO[/b] and website design. One of the first things any good web developer will do is make sure that their website or website theme is [b]W3C validated[/b]. It's well considered that Google looks at whether your site is [b]W3C validated or not[/b]. And from what I remember, none of these website builders used to ever pass [b]W3C validation[/b].
That's just one side of it and most people that use them don't know about that and don't generally care when you tell them as long as it looks good to them and it's easy to change stuff on it lol. The funnier thing is, these website builder sites know about this but they don't tell their users that. They provide ways to "[b]SEO[/b]" their free website but often charge extra if you want to do something fairly advanced like add meta descriptions etc which sucks. Not all do that but some do.
But hey look, [b]2025[/b], that's another [b]10 years away[/b] yet and a lot can happen in a decade. If you remember a while back I was asking about whether or not [b]A.I.[/b] could replace freelancers and SEO's altogether? And there was that post about that web design A.I. if you remember it? Well I do think that by then A.I will have improved so much so that it will be able to create nice looking, functional and modern websites on the fly based on a theme of a few keywords that you give to it. So if you wanted an e-commerce store on [b]fly fishing[/b]. You put in a couple words like [b]fly fishing[/b] and then it makes you a site that is based on fly fishing using everything it knows about web design and development and hey presto, after 5 minutes you have a fully functioning, fully response, future proof website and e-com store that passed W3C validation.
Well I think that is only a matter of time and is inevitable and when it does, it will certainly put a lot of web devs out of business. And some of these free website builders as well. But who knows what could happen? Anything could pop up and turn the whole game upside down. :)
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Well.. This is a tricky question. Sure, website designers in general might not be needed in the same way due to all the website builders you've mentioned, but think of it this way..
People hire others because of two things. The first thing is that they don't know how to do it. The second is that they don't have enough time to do it. So even if you're a website designer in 2025, you could potentially just use a wordpress theme or a website builder and provide the results your clients are looking for.. Right?
I know I'd do it, if I was good at design, coding or websites in general :D
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