Look, web dev is a moving target. This whole thing started out as simple as simple gets. Text on a page, maybe a JPG, maybe a gif of a flag waving or a dancing baby. Then everyone got down with JavaScript for super basic dynamic elements on their sites. Next thing you know, folks are installing PHP on their servers and all of a sudden you can make seriously dynamic pages with database calls. And on and on it goes. Ruby, Go, jQuery, the list grows and so do the capabilities of the web. But this comes with a cost that no one really talks about. The more exciting tech that you're including in the stack, the more requests you have to make back to the server. More requests means a slower and slower site. Slower sites take a serious hit in the indexing department when Google's search bots get around to indexing your site. Refining your code and collapsing your files in order to reduce servers requests became an art form. The age of the CMS changed everything, too. A simple PHP blog engine called WordPress came along and made it so that anyone could push a button on the Godaddy hosting dashboard and have a skeleton for a website. Add a couple of game-changer plugins and suddenly you had a fully functioning site in only a few hours. But with that sort of ease of use comes a huge tax: Performance, maintenance overhead, and security. Dev and design agencies dug in and built entire workflows and infrastructure around rapid turnaround of WordPress sites and trying to move away from that formula is unthinkable heresy!

What you need is a forward-thinking developer. Someone that isn't afraid to look ahead and see what's coming around the bend. It's our job to stay on top of the state of the art but so many of us fall into the WordPress trap and never break out. Sure, I could build you a WordPress site like just about any other developer can today but that's not what you need. You need someone acquainted with the latest JavaScript libraries that will not only provide your with a site that give you all the content control and ease of use that a modern CMS provides but with none of the baggage. With Gatsby.js, a static website generator that runs on top of React.js, and powered by the Prismic headless CMS, you get a light-speed-fast website that will crush your competition's sites. In today's SEO world, competition for those top search spots is ferocious. Work with me and the difference between your site and a cheap WordPress site will be the difference between a Ferrari Enzo and a Ford Pinto.