When I started my own consultancy company 18 months ago, I built a website using the personal website template Microsoft provided. At that time it was ok, but not more than that.
I’m focused on application integration, service orientation and business processes and my website showed clearly that I’m not a designer.
Since the release of the ASP.NET MVC framework I saw new opportunities to restyle the companies website with another template. It took me about 2 days to build the website and it is live now.
There are still things to improve such as AJAX support, but for now it looks much better than the old one!
If you have time take a look at it: http://www.didago.nl