Each time I go away and come back and look at the design now, I like it still, so I do think I’m managed to design something now that I like and that is interesting and a bit different from the average website.

So clearly the key is to just keep going no matter how hopeless it seems. I’m also finding that patience is important. To take time over things that you want to be well designed instead of rushing. I’ve been very guilty in the past of rushing my site re-designs and that is a big reason I feel that they’ve never been very good.

I’ve still got several areas I need to design because this time I’m taking my time and doing it so that I’m sure to be happy about every single page.

By all means get in touch if you want to discuss the design of your page and show me what you’ve worked on so far.

I can’t show you mine yet because I’ve already shown two people who asked me for a sneak preview, and I must control myself stop this leakage prior to proper ‘launch’. lol

I want it to be a surprise when people visit my site so that they see it all properly finished ……well its either going to be a surprise or a horrible shock, lol. Oh well, I’m going to be brave about it and come outside of my box and just see what people think.

They are either going to love it or hate it I think, but I’m sick of sitting on the fence with my site design, trying to please everyone and probably pleasing no one in particular, and I’m for once going to design something that I really like.

Amanda

I can relate to this post! I think we have all been there, I always thought designing my own site and brand would be the easiest, as I should know exactly what I want! But thats just not the case, my own site has gone through a number of re-designs, some of which have been released onto the WWW, others are stored in the archives, perhaps never to be seen!

Reading this post has given me a rather interesting idea though, how about we each do a design for each other’s sites? Or perhaps just review each other’s sites in terms of design and styling, that way we won’t be outlaying for design we may not use, and we might be able to surprise each other with whatever we come up with!

Let me know if you are interested as crazy as it sounds it might just work
Thanks, Greg

I looked at it again this morning and thought “Is it really that bad?” It’s ok, but it’s not amazing and I’m sick of changing my site design and putting up designs that are just ‘ok’ – I really want to stretch myself this time and create something much better than just ok.

I’ll keep on ploughing forward and playing with the design and trying new designs to try and break through this creativity barrier, if it was a client I’d have no choice but to get through this.

I think the difference with designing for myself is that I have a habit of giving in when it gets hard and going ‘Oh well, that’s good enough anyway’ and just putting up any old rubbish design – this time I’m going to try and be more like a client and not accept sub standard work