“If I don’t have a website right now – what’s the worst that could happen?”

To be honest, the worst that could happen isn’t really all that bad.

Planes will not fall from the sky, alligators will not mate with octopuses and make freaky alligator-octopus hybrids and the zombie apocalypse will certainly not occur if your business does not have a website right now.

The worst that could happen is you will lose out on money that could have been yours.

A potential customer will search for your business and not find you.

Our main job (other than making your business look amazing) is to help you make more money, so that’s a pretty big deal in my mind.

So one of the main things that I always tell customers who are either:

• indecisive / kicking tires
• haven’t made up their minds
• or don’t see the point of this whole Internet thing

Is to get something out there. Anything. Absolutely anything that a customer can find you online with.

For some that’s a website, for others it’s a Facebook fan page and for still others it’s simply making sure that all of your online yellow pages and directory listings are correct.

Ask any four-year-old child and they will gladly let you know that something is better than nothing.

Just please don’t ask that four year old child to design your new website. Pretty please.

Oh and while I have your attention – if you are looking for that something to get your business online but maybe don’t have the scratch to hire us incredibly good-looking people to develop you one – why not check out our flagship product Structure? It allows anyone with a computer to build their own website and get their something up online.

Check out the Structure – The Online Website Builder for Small Business and drop us a line if you have any questions about it!

Autumn brings changes and we felt the need to change with the times here at 12Strong. The crisp air, chilly mornings and the fact the leaves are starting to turn colours has put us in the mind to change our own colours.

We decided to give our website a bit of a facelift to showcase our expanding talent and the new languages (HTML5, CSS3) that have been shaping our work for the last year or so.

As a web design and development agency we pride ourselves on giving our customers the newest and best website that we can. We realized the other day that this needs to be highlighted as well in the work that we do for ourselves.

We utilized a very cool new rotating slideshow on our homepage, we came up with that one a few months ago and it takes advantage of some of the new CSS3 transform properties (not seeing it? try upgrading your browser for the best viewing experience possible).

There are a few little tweaks and such throughout the site that make use of some of the best and most innovative UI and technology advancements that have been shaping the web design world over the last year or so.

We hope you like our new design and would love to hear feedback from you on how we can make our website better for our customers and viewers.