Durban Website Designers

Well, welcome to the Durban Website Designers blog.

This is a suitable moment to introduce myself. My name is Martin Evers and I am a freelance website developer.

I have been designing websites on and off since 1995. I have spent most of my working life as a research technologist at the (used to be) University of Natal. My particular responsibility was the electron microscope unit.

Although I started as a technician many years ago, I worked my way through the bureacracy to be head of several such units. My responsibilities also changed to being a researcher, a consultant and a lecturer as well as a technician.

Universities generally get evolving technology early and the University of Natal was no exception so we had email in the 1980s and the Internet in the early 90s.

Although everything in Mosaic was battleship grey, I could see the potential. It suited my lecturing duties as I could create a website for them and post documents to the server. I also created a website for my unit and for a couple of micrsocopy conferences.

I left the university in 1997 and decided  to start a website design business.

The business offered several advantages:

1. I had experience, although limited, in website design
2. There was no special accommodation or equipment to buy so I could run it from my house
3. I could run the business as a one man band
4. The world would appreciate my hitherto undiscovered graphic design talent (har har)
5. Website design was a burgeoning field.

The next task was to decide on a name for the business. Webfeat; Webfoot and other cheesy names were thought of. We had recently come back from a holiday in Umfolozi and for those of you who are familiar with the park, the curio stall at the lower entrance specializes in wooden warthogs and we had bought one. Sitting on its haunches, unvarnished and very crooked.

So, Warthog Web Design it was. A little alliteration of course. However it is a name that people ask about and remember.

As a company name it stinks as it says nothing about what the company does.

Warthog Web Design has been going for 11 years now and has done reasonably well. The time is now ripe to test another website design site on the local market and so, the advent of Durban Website Designers.

I hope that you visit the Durban Website Designers website. I think its better than the Warthog Web Design site. The site has been up for a few weeks and sits at about #55 for ‘durban website designers’ keyphrase in the local Google.

We’ll see how it does. At the moment, it’s in the stage of lots of small final adjustments.