Three things that are not true about websites.
Myth #1: Building a website is really super ridiculously hard.
Building a website isn't hard at all once you know how to do it. Of course, most people know about as much about how to build a website as they know about neurosurgery, and unless you're a neurosurgeon or have an unsual fascination with studying neurosurgery, that's not much.
Unfortunately, like neurosurgery, not knowing how to do it and not needing it are very different things. If you have your own business, if you sell, serve, sing things, if you want to be current and look like you have a clue what you're doing out there in the business world, you probably need a website. And because you don't have one, and you don't know how to build one on your own, you're probably going to have to buy one.
Myth #2: Buying a website is really super duper expensive.
There is not a single person who I ever built a website for who has said to me "Money is no object." Sure, I'd like to meet that person one day but they won't be coming to me for a website anyway because they're going to have, like, Sergey Brin* build their site personally or something. They probably also have their own neurosurgeon that just follows them around, you know, just in case. You're not this person. And neither am I.
When you hire a web designer or web firm to build you a website for your band, barber shop, or bongo store, you're paying for their time (Yes, I know, thanks for that lesson in economics and the service industry. Stay with me.) With many web design firms, you're paying for office space, employment taxes, 401ks and vegan take-out, not to mention the electric bill. And they still have to turn a profit! I'm not that kind of web designer. I have a full-time job that is not building your website. They pay for office space, employment taxes, my 401k... plus I don't even HAVE an electric bill. All that means I can build your website for usually about half what you'd pay a professional web designer. And unlike neurosurgery, going with the cheaper, working out of a basement choice probably isn't going to hurt you in the end. Except...
Myth # 3: Getting a website online takes a ridiculously stupid long time
This is where webdesign and neurosurgery REALLY differ. I built this entire website in about six hours on a Friday night. If I was paying myself, it would have cost about $150. Plus $45 on the host and domain for a grand whopping total less than $200 after taxes. And I think it might be tax deductible but don't quote me on that because I am definitely not an accountant. Even my accountant isn't an accountant, he's a neurosurgeon.
That said - I don't build websites full-time. USUALLY, this will have no affect whatsoever on you or your site or your sense of inner calm and instead it will save you a ton of cash and you'll say things like "Man, Chris is the bomb" assuming you are the kind of person who says that sort of thing. EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE, however, my real job gets in the way and I don't get done what I think I can get done in any given week. For example, when there is a blizzard in Kansas (where I live and work) then you can assume that I will not be getting any website work done. I take on less projects in the winter to try and avoid this affecting the projects I do have but well, you know, crap happens.
Speaking of crap -- sometimes I have to turn a project down. Okay, actually this has nothing to do with crap. If what you need is pretty complex and would require a lot of backend programming type stuff -- I don't do that. I don't even know how to do that and you do not want to pay what it would cost for me to figure it out. I do know some people who do exactly that and I will be more than happy to put you in touch with them, but I have no influence whatsoever over them, their businesses, or their pricing. BUT...
If you are looking for a simple website -- a website that says who you are, what you do, where to find you, what it'll cost -- a website a whole lot like this one -- I can help you out.
Go ahead and click on that little Pricing & Services link at the top and I'll tell you all about what I do and who can benefit most from it (spoiler alert: its you!) Plus I promise there are very few continued attempts at humor and absolutely no neurosurgery metaphors of any kind.
*Sergey Brin is one of the two original founders of Google, Inc. I don't think he actually builds websites for other people. If he did, that would be really expensive.