About
After designing and building my own websites for many years, I was eventually convinced by family, friends, and quasi clients to do it for the public. Although it seemed like highway robbery to me at first (people were actually willing to pay me for this?), as a business owner myself, I understood how hard it could be to find the time to put together a halfway decent website or blog, let alone something that looked professionally designed.
Graphics, color schemes, HTML code, and layouts are enough to drive the most lucid person insane. What pages should I include in my site? How do I put those things in my blog sidebar? What's HTML? How do I put a form on my site? Where do I start?
The process of building a website can be pretty overwhelming, but over the years (after pushing myself to the edge of madness and nearly pulling my hair out more times than I care to count), I finally figured out the answers to most of those questions. I launched Brown Bug Project, and my motto became that I was saving small business owners' sanity one site at a time!
Then I began branching out and offering other services to small business owners and solo entrepreneurs, and through that process, I remembered why I went into business for myself, to become self-reliant and independent financially. I've always believed that owning a business was a path to creating a self-sustained life, so I made it my path and, in recent years, set out to help others do the same.
I realized that I wanted more from my work and more for Brown Bug Project, so for the start of 2010, I began the transition from Brown Bug Project to the Give Back Project. The site would offer the same (and more) services, and I'd still be at the helm, but my hope was to put low-income and harder-to-employ people to work, sort of like the Greyston Bakery ("We don't hire people to make brownies. We make brownies to hire people." Of course, we wouldn't be making brownies, just websites!).
Essentially, with every website we built, I wanted Give Back Project to accomplish two things. First, we'd be helping the client create a great website that would help reach his or her own goals in life and business, and second, we'd be providing an opportunity to someone who longed for self-reliance and independence.
Now, instead of seeing "A Brown Bug Project" in the footers of sites around the world, people will see "A Give Back Project" and hopefully will be inspired to continue the cycle of giving back, paying it forward, and keeping that good karma going around.
I hope you'll like the new Give Back Project!