09/29/2025
If you've been following us for a while, you might know we're slooowly building our own cabin in the woods during weekends/evenings on occasional trips. 🙂 Here are some parallels I've found between cabin building and website design!
1. Everything starts with a plan
Before picking paint colours or wood finishes (aka “the pretty stuff”), you need a solid purpose. Same with website! What do you want your site to do for you? What are your business goals, and how can your website help make them happen?
2. Build on a solid foundation
If you want people to find you online, you’ll want to start with SEO research before you design anything. And make sure your site focuses on services or products you still want to offer. You’d be surprised how many sites list stuff the business doesn’t even do anymore.
3. Pretty is great, but function comes first
You wouldn’t buy curtains before knowing your window sizes. The same goes for websites: don’t jump into graphic design until you’ve nailed down your content and structure. Otherwise, you’re just decorating a blueprint you haven’t finished yet.
4. Is it ever really "done"?
Websites are often evolving over time. (I think that cabin might be too!) There's always a blog that needs to be written, a service that changes, a product that no longer exists etc. And that's ok!
If my cabin were a website, I'd wait to launch it until it looked a little prettier, though! 😅
