About Lisa French Designs

We are a full-service professional web design company that builds valuable relationships with clients and produces well-conceived designs and back-end solutions enabling us to deploy effective website's for clients.

Located in Missouri we are dedicated to producing powerful, effective well-designed web sites for all business whether they are just starting out or they are a corporate giant!

Here at lisafrench.com, we strive to meet a higher standard of work and client relations, our designers work one on one with the client until the design is perfected!

About Lisa French

In 2002 my first child was born and I knew right away that getting a conventional job again was OUT of the question. So I went to work brainstorming on ways to earn money from home. I had gone to college for CAD (computer aided drafting), and had gotten certified. However, I knew that my passion wasn't for CAD. So I tried a whole lot of "work from home jobs". A few were legit and would have worked out well if I didn't have a little one to tend to...answering phones can be a chore when you are a busy Mom, and you can't control when the baby is hungry or needs changing. So needless to say, those jobs didn't last too long.

One day in August of 2002 my brother came to my house to show me some neat coding that he had learned, and I watched him enter in a bunch of "gobbeldy-gook" and the next thing I know, it's a cool looking "Matrix" effect! I thought, wow, that was awesome. So after he left, I sat down at the computer and looked up some online tutorials and before I knew it, I was hand coding basic HTML. I got my first client www.heartlandsale.com and I took a "pre-made" template that they chose and did all kinds of weird stuff to it...while now I think it is HORRIBLE, then both the client and I LOVED it! (They still love it by the way). And thus my career was born.

I started my own web design business "SmartDesigns" in October of 2002, and contracted with a few of my peers and family members to help me out should I need them. I some did design, some did coding etc. But it was a really slow start...my next client didn't come until almost a year later. www.thefrenchconnectionkennel.com so I took on the site and again, the client and I were 100% satisfied. It wasn't until after my final client under "SmartDesigns" that I learned that running a business was hard work.

A friend/client, suggested to me, "Why not Freelance?"...Rather than owning a business which was costly and not bringing in enough revenue to cover the overhead, I could freelance!!!...And that's it...I have been freelancing since 2004 ,when my daughter was born, and I love it! I thank God everyday for giving me the opportunity to do what I love and succeed at it!