When you're a kid there's nothing more satisfying than putting your most recent masterpiece on the fridge for all to see. Mom will ooooo and ahhhh over the brilliance of your art and proclaim she has the next great artist living under their roof. This, of course, prompts you to outdo yourself with something even grander than before.



Some mothers will eventually place each treasure in a box and refer to them when you've grown up and they are left to find company in the memories you left behind. It's the nature of parenthood, and an emotional moment all mothers go through when you're not looking.

Web design can be a bit like drawing the pictures of childhood. You may not always get it right, but you place it on a global fridge for all to see. The good news is you likely won't stop with your first masterpiece. You will explore new ways to express yourself and you will gain courage from every attempt.

I couch the concept of web design in emotive terms because it can, and perhaps even should be a slightly emotional experience – at least at the beginning.

The web is an entirely new canvas to many and learning the skills of web design can be a unique way to express a little bit of who you are intermingled with what you do.

One of the positive things about this art form is that there are unique tools available to help you develop a site on your own.

Think of it this way. As a child you could have melted the wax, colored it and placed it in small paper tubes. You could have manufactured the box the crayons would be placed in and you could have processed wood pulp to create the paper you would draw on. Instead most kids just grabbed a box of existing crayons and a sheet of notebook paper and started drawing. It was OK not to reinvent the process every time you wanted to draw.

This is the same idea with web builder technology. Web design gurus have come up with the cyber crayons and canvas to allow you to create without the need to start with the most basic elements requiring skills you may not have to create the tools you will need.

Even more important to the overall process is the satisfaction of a personally designed site coupled with a less expensive development option and hosting. This is the power of web builder technology for those who still enjoy creating something special for others to see.

As a point of future nostalgia invite your children to help out by allowing them to offer ideas about colors, photos and layout. Give them the opportunity to put crayon to paper in your cyber creation. Give them a memory tied to a new fridge. Make it a family project.

And when it's all said and done the new generation art could hold the potential for providing income to your family. This might be the best reason yet to get creative and develop your business website with and for your family.