Start a Knowledge Base for your Webdesign Business

If you don’t have a knowledge base for your webdesign business yet, start today. Start collecting all those tidbits of information that tell you how to do neat tricks with your webdesigns. Anytime you learn something new, you can keep the information in your new knowledge base.

I didn’t do this when I started webdesign - and I wish I had. I have a small knowledge base which I created at PBWiki. It mainly has links to places where I can get help with the many different aspects of webdesign that I work with. Here’s my knowledge base: Klamath Design Knowledge Base. If I’d started earlier I’d have included a lot more snippets of code, and all those links to cool sites that helped me along the way. By the time I decided I needed a knowledge base, I had most of that memorized!

My knowledge base has the following categories:

• Page Design
• Cascading Style Sheets
• JavaScript
• Hyper Text Markup Language
• Business Development
• Search Engine Optimization
• Graphics
• Content Writing

When I do a new webdesign, I open my knowledge base in another browser tab and have it handy for quick reference when needed. If your business progresses to the point where you hire designers to work with you, your knowledge base can serve as a reference point for them too.

Since I’m telling you about this, I’m hereby making a commitment to add new cool stuff to my knowledge base. If you make one, or have one, please leave a link to it in the comments to this post so we can all check out your knowledge base creativity and progress.