Are Websites Complicated?
This is another of these burning questions I get asked. Tech is one of the biggest things that holds people back, especially women, in their businesses.
'It's too hard'
'It doesn't like me'
'I'm not a tech person'
'I could never do that'
Are some of the phrases I hear most often from clients before they work with me? I get it, I really do. Even as someone who has always been a techy person, I still get really frustrated by tech.
'Then are websites complicated, Lisa, if you get frustrated?' I hear you ask. No, not for me, I could create a website in my sleep. I get frustrated when things go wrong.
Naturally, lots of people have a fear of things going wrong. Combine this with being overwhelmed and not knowing where to start, and I can see why many of my clients come to me because they think websites are complex.
So are websites complicated, really?
Of course, as a website designer, I am not going to say websites are complicated, but it wasn't always that way. It's the same as anything: when you don't know how, everything is hard; when you learn how to do it, it becomes easy!
Think about it. You didn't just jump in a car for the first time on your driving test without ever having driven before. Undoubtedly, you were taught how to drive and the rules of the road before even booking your test, let alone gaining a licence.
I used to have this massive fear of numbers. Anything with numbers petrified me, so maths, finance, even numbers on a screen.
Why? Because I didn't understand them. As soon as I looked at anything to do with numbers, my brain just shut down, and I dismissed it as too hard and complicated.
I still get a bit like that, but thanks to the wonderful and amazing Dominique Mullally, whom I've been working with for the past year or so, I'm starting to understand numbers and how they can work for me and my business.
Dominique empowers women to become financially free and run a profitable business through learning the skills and strategy needed to understand numbers AND improve them! As Dominique says, 'money is just maths', a thought that terrified me when I first started working with her. But knowing what she's taught me over the last year, figuring out the maths I need, helps me earn more money. It really is that simple!
We are not born knowing everything, jeez, not even I know everything 😜! But we can learn, and learning is the best place to start.
Take baby steps
When faced with a massive project such as a website, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the scope of it all. What you need to have in place, what you need to learn, all these things that you have no idea of, let alone understand! Are websites complicated, therefore? Yes, if you've never tackled one before, and you try to deal with it all in one go.
So break it down into baby steps.
Write a list of what you think you will need, what you already know you need, what things you are unsure that you need, and whom you can ask.
Then do one thing at a time.
I don't just teach people the skills they need to create a website; it would be pointless if they didn't have the confidence to use them. So it's back to baby steps.
Do what's easiest for you and build up from there
Don't be afraid to try new things, failing is learning, and as I said, it's learning that makes everything easier
Stop telling yourself you can't! You can; you just may need some extra resources, such as asking for help.
Are Websites Complicated? No Use This Mantra
Repeat after me:
Tech is Easy!
Tech is Fun!
That's my mantra, so if you are wondering, 'Are websites complicated?', I want you to breathe deeply, tell yourself you can, and learn or ask for help on the stuff you don't know.
It makes them seem so much easier!
