Two years ago my husband Jim and I began a publishing company to publish a book we’d written. We thought at the time we needed all the bells and whistles to launch our book and so we hired a prestigious web design firm to make our website for about $3000.

Our site was still not finished months after their estimated deadline because our company was continually pushed behind bigger projects, and eventually out of frustration, I just took over the site and learned to use Dreamweaver so I could finish it myself.