As I start up the Behind the Shovel blog, let’s first get to the Mad Genius behind the curtain, Walt Schaefer.

Walt, owner and creator of www.waltswebworx.com is the King of the Web. There are other people who lay claim to the title, but it’s only cheap talk. Walt talks the talk, and not just walks the walk, but delivers the goods as well.

He built my first site over 5 years ago, and it worked extremely well. We sold all over the country, we sold seed, roots, tubers, Scartar, SaladFlakes, and we were off and running.

However, because I suffer from a bad case of cerebral constipation, I took my business and my website to a guy who promised a slick looking cart, superior sales, fame, glory and all that goes with it. I dumped Walt for a promise of gold.

Turns out it was a false promise, of course. The website looked slick, alright. But in the next 2 years, I sold nothing. Not one packet of seeds, not one jar of Scartar, nothing, nada. Seems like my new webmaster had the skills to make the site LOOK fine, but not the skills to make it actually WORK fine. And friends, therein lies all the difference.

I crawled on my hands and knees back to Walt, and had he lived a thousand miles from me instead of ten, I would have crawled that far too. He graciously accepted my mea culpa’s, completely dismantled the old site and built me a new one for a reasonable price. I would have paid double, and been happy to do so.

When you see our website www.machadofarms.com , you are seeing the mind of Walt the Webmaster at his best. Simple, smooth, clean, workable, long on function, short on frills, the guy knows what works and what doesn’t. He makes websites that not just work at their best, but makes your entire web experience deeper, richer, interesting, happier. And most of all- whatever he says and does- works. Everything he has done for me has made me deliriously happy.

I still suffer from severe cerebral constipation, but until the day Walt drops off this earth, he is my go-to guy. And, he should be yours too.

Look for his link on the blog home page under “The King”.  Thanks Walt!