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Web Agency Aphorisms

Web Agency Aphorisms

Twenty-five years of memories — 1997-2022

  • Opening remarks from a web agency journeyperson

Opening remarks from a web agency journeyperson

Before I launched my first and only web agency I had a job as an assistant for a Jeep dealership in the USA. I was young and I admired my boss for one thing: his speed at making decisions. As I stood before him, he could be reading a document, tap his feet very fast about thirty times, then sign the paper document with an immediate fury and move on to the next document.

I was in awe.

Then the FBI came in one day and charged him with bribing a judge. I took off! (well, I was already halfway out the door when it occurred).

It was time to launch my own business and find my own fury. 

Motivated for entrepreneurship

The question was: what shall it be? And thanks to an unexpected opportunity to create a website in 1995, I found my passion as an entrepreneur.

Herein you can read 25 years of passion and discovery while running a web agency from 1997 to present day, currently 2022. Although I did learn to love signing my name furiously, it’s electronically.

Web Agency Aphorisms

Web coding

Java and Java and sleepless nights

Take a break, it will always work tomorrow.
Web agency genesis

HTML and sun-glistening-off-the-water backgrounds

Let there be web, and there was web
Multi-tasking

Clients, design, development, direction… keep the music going!

Synergy is when the combined forces are better than the total of each individual source. 
Entrepreneurship

Hey dude, what’s different about it?

A web agency is a standard business operation. That’s all folks.
Urgency and production

Tug of war

Customers want to pay the best price for the service.
Risk-taking

Why is your web agency the right one?

It takes a team to make it align at every angle for great web design and development.
Oysters

Luck and decision making at the web agency

Necessity is the mother of luck, but you still have to get out of the building.
Doing business

The first customer at the web agency

I personally loved Netscape and the 6 floppy disks I needed to install on my computer.
Custom or not to custom

Which is faster: coding out of the box or coding from nothing?

There was only one way to find out. A duel was set, Dreamweaver versus Notepad.
Responsive web design

Responsive web design before responsive web design

At the web agency, all navigators are created equal
Hierarchy

Leadership at the web agency

Everyone can be in charge according to the moment. According to the context of the situation. Everything is context. 
Team building

Sea, sex, and fun at the web agency

Barcelona is a great place for team building through Art, Architecture, and Music! Not to mention food and parties.
Condolences

Hommage for Frank (dirtyF)

Frank, or dirtyF, was always full of wit and humor and continued to be a presence at the web agency even after he left.
Content Management Systems

CMS at the web agency

No website is truly great without a well-configured and optimized CMS to offer autonomy.
Leadership

The web agency (sometimes) fail

Don’t put the wrong people in a leadership position at your web agency.
Digital marketing

Obsession and delirious about SEO at the Web Agency

The daily 12-step checklist for a digital marketing idealist.
History of content

Content is always king at the web agency

The evolution of content at the web agency and beyond.
Expertise

SEO and UX are brothers at the web agency

And what about SEO and UX and the web agency?
Leadership redux

Gaslighting and ego at the web agency

Don’t put narcissistic people in a leadership position at your web agency.
Green coding

An Eco-responsible web agency

Let’s do our share and not saving any more than needed except for email from 25 years ago.
Recruitment

The revolving door at the web agency

Web agencies of the world, turnover is natural and positive, embrace it.
Work/Life balance

Productivity at the web agency

How are we productive at the web agency?
Legal

40, 39, 35, 32 hour work weeks

There will come a time when we will work less hours… but highly specialized. 
Search

Dear Google, don’t you understand?

Search and AI still have a long way to go.
Conclusion

Life at the web agency

Not just work, but living our lives out at the web agency – it’s nothing less than a thrill!

Signing documents today at the web agency
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