I get at least a person a day that calls wanting to know if I know of a Web designer in their area. I do know a lot of Web designers, as a matter of fact; I know a lot of very good Web designers. But I do not know all the cities, much less a designer in each one.

I decided to have one of the girls in the office write a little article and then find some Web design companies in that area and post on our blog. Basically, we were recommending Web design companies in areas were clients live.

I was thinking that it was good for everyone, I gave the website visitor the information they were looking for, and the web design company got a recommendation from another web design company.

But no good deed goes unpunished.

Novastar Design (http://novastardesign.com/) appears to get upset when someone recommends them.

Maybe they have never been recommended by anyone before.

But a funny thing happens when you start threatening people, those people start looking into who you are.

So…I went to search of who Novastar Design was.

First stop was there website and want to talk about a bad choice of colors.

For a designer to lack the ability to choose the correct colors when designing a website is bad enough but to lack the ability to choose good colors when building your own site is just sad.

I also noticed that he claimed to have been doing business since 1996.

14 years and still hasn’t learned how to design a website?

I mean this guy doesn’t even have a logo.

I decided to dig a little deeper. So I went to http://www.whois.net/ and looked up his site.

Novastar Design bought the name in 2007.

Now, that makes more sense, his design looks like someone that has been doing business for about 2 years.

But here is a company claiming to have been in business for the last 10 years when in reality they’ve been in business for the last two years.

Here is a business that I was recommending yesterday, that has now brought attention to themselves and I am now saying, “stay the heck away from Novastar Design”.
To lie about something as simple as how long you have been in business is just crazy.

So I will no longer recommend your business, hope we can be friends now.