George Romaka

So, if you’ve never been here before, and are wondering why the site of a guy who calls himself an “IT Consultant and Web Developer” is such an ugly mess, I have an explanation, really, I do.

I had an epiphany today. For the last two years, I have been trying to market myself as nothing more than a web designer. This has been problematic for a few reasons:

• Web DESIGN (the visual aspects), although I am proficient with them, have not really been my strongest suit.
• I was marketing myself as a small business. I’m not a small business though. I’m a guy with a regular, steady job, who does web work on the side.
• I was limiting myself by my very choice of company name: “Romaka Web Design.” I couldn’t keep adding things to the title as my skill set grew. And since it is my own personal skill set, it didn’t make sense to try to make myself out to be a group of people.

So today I nuked my old website. Gone, it is, form the face of the World Wide Web. And in it’s place is…this.

Now I should know better, really. I should know to have content ready to go before I start a new site. But I felt that I’d been strangling myself with that business title, and it was worth the risk of frightening a few clients with a drastic change to get my sanity back.

I even ditched my logo. I’d been told it looked good, but honestly, it was a real pain in the butt to work with. I was going to be changing it soon anyway, and even had it’s replacement all drawn up! But I’d been putting it off for far too long. It had to go.

Which brings me to now. After a bout of ‘retail therapy’ at the Navy Exchange, I’ve come home to roost, and sift through the radioactive ashes of Romaka Web Design to see if there’s anything salvageable for my new self-vision. I’m not looking too carefully though. There’s too much future and too little past for me to really feel all that nostalgic…

So I now continue on my journey. My next steps are to figure out exactly what kinds of services I’m offering, and to style my site. I said above that design isn’t my strongest suit. However, I can’t very well be a web guy with a site someone else designed. Well, I can, but I’d feel dirty. I already feel like I’m half-cheating using WordPress as a CMS instead of writing the entire site from scratch.

Wish me luck! And feel free to contact me for work. Maybe if I had more of that, I wouldn’t be obsessing so much over my own site.