Nothing is recession-proof. People (businesses especially) cut back on their
spending and web sites are no different. I was writing web sites leading up
to 2001, mostly for large businesses. When it hit, everyone cut back.
Businesses that would have updated their site four times a year and
completely redo it once or twice a year went to making small tweaks and
changes. Instead of writing a new site with a new approach for them, it was
"can we make changes to these two pages?" Other businesses that had fancy,
fun, interesting sites cut back to no-fun, no-frills, business-oriented
sites. In fact, this is when so much of the fun went out of business web
sites and everyone decided it had to make good dollars and cents sense and
there was no room for fun or creativity.

The business will still be there, but be prepared for people wanting to pay
less for the same thing or at the least, just wanting smaller, cheaper
sites.

MD


Paevo Kelley wrote:
> As an independent designer, I was wondering how recession-proof web
> design is... Maybe 2001, 2002 should bring back some memories of toil
> and strife?...