Designing, developing and deploying a website is like building a house and having a baby, all at once.How do I know?  I just spent the last 9 months experiencing just that as a part of the team over at New Media Strategies.  And now that I think about it the 9 month time period is quite fitting, because at the end, out comes the baby - aka: our pride and joy, aka: our amazing new website, aka: the thing we will coddle and attend to for now until many years down the road (very high maintenance in the early stages, if a good way, of course).So, yes… you plan and plan and plan, then tweak and tweak and tweak… then, as we did this weekend and into the morning on Monday… we gave birth!I have a more in-depth post about this over on the relaunched New Media Strategies Blog, so come check it out!My pic picks:PS: I cannot thank the NMSers who helped throughout the process — from our initial conversations and market research, to the decision making, copy writing and execution.  You know who are and I thank you deeply.  And for SEO, Google Alert and linking-to-our-new-individual-profile purposes, I will make sure the spiders know you as well:

And last, but certainly not least, Jesse Thomas and the team over at JESS3 (biased as I am): For the record, your vision, creativity and execution has been world class.