We all know in business and in ministry there is not a one-size-fits-all solution for relating to our customers/audience.

The principle holds for websites.

While I work on developing the website systems for smaller organizations, I'm also looking for a lot of contract work.

I turned down another contract today.

This time? The guy (who never gave his name over 3 e-mails), wants a website that can do everything that yahoo can do and more. He wants it up and running in 3 days, without ever having to get technical support. He doesn't know the difference between a blog and a corporate website.

Sometimes people get sold on an idea, and want to turn it into a get-rich-quick program.

Every week multiple people come up with a great idea and post it on Craig's List hoping to get a programmer on board.

• The new Youtube.
• The new myspace.
• The new google.
• The new Amazon.com.

Somehow they get the idea in their heads that they can, in 3 days with 1 programmer, beat out a service that has the entire audience already.

This can be done, but not solely on a whim driven by greed.

Most small businesses don't have the money to pry the best website designers and programmers away from the more lucrative contracts from major corporations.

This leaves the rest of us with a two options:

1. Get a cheap-as-free website. You can get an eBay store, a Yahoo website, or sign up with a service that allows you to add your business name, information and 1 photo. You can even choose the color of the sidebar.

The problem?
Your website is not unique. Your website does not say anything about you and your organization. Your website cannot grow. For example, getting videos on your eBay store, or a discussion board on your cheap-as-free website may not be po

2. Find a friend, relative, or customer to help. Many of our organizations have gone this route. The bakery has a customer who would create a website in exchange for cup-cakes, or a nephew will do the website for cheap, or a layperson in the church volunteers.

The Problem?
Your nephew goes to college, you cup-cake loving customer moves, or the layperson gets too busy. Your website goes out of date very quickly. You may not have access to your website at all. Now you've got an inaccurate, out-dated website.

There's a solution to the problem. Or there should be. There needs to be a way that professional website designers and programmers can still earn a living while small businesses can still afford to pay for the high quality, personalized, expandable websites.

That is our quest. Care to join us? Grab some empty coconut shells, mount your invisible horse, call your signing squire and join us in the quest for the holy grail of small organization websites.

Jon is the owner of Unhindered Technology LLC. We remove the barriers to online technology for ministries and small businesses.