New Website!! (hopefully)

Well, I've finally bit the bullet and taken the next step to trying to get my photo business off the ground. I feel like I've got a decent start to a portfolio, and some reasonable skillz, so it's time to start the process of getting my name out there.

For the last few months I've toyed with designing a web page and customizing a nice Flash image gallery and having a nice page, but I've come to the grim reality that I'm just not a web designer anymore. Given an infinite amount of time, I'm sure I can get back up to speed, but given the fact that I'm working 2 jobs (although to be fair, my second job only really takes one a day a week... but creeping crap it's tiring!), plus whatever photo gigs I can get... there's not a lot of web development time. So... I decided to purchase a "canned" web site from bludomain.com. Their sites are gorgeous, and I found one design that matches what I wanted to do with my own anyways. Their prices are great and from what I've read, the administration is painfully easy and works really well. The problem is, their customer service is legendary for it's shitty-ness. Do a Google search for "bludomain" and the bulk of the hits are some pretty intense rants about them... about how they never answer email and it takes longer to get their site than they promised... etc... However, it seems that each of these forum postings is matched by an almost equal number of people who said they have no problems, OR from people who said they had the CS problems to start off with, but once they deliver the site the end-user generally doesn't need to deal with them anymore and the simplicity of the sites take over. I'm an extremely patient person, so I figure if I can live through the potential CS problems, I'll be good to go once everything's set up.

So, if anyone actually reads this... check out my site at some point and see if it's up and running!
www.blairhallphotography.com

Cheers and wish me luck!