So I have decide to go live with my own website! I have been working on it in my spare time getting the site ready... which it's not yet... but nearly there, even if it has been a nightmare.

As a Web Designer I spend everyday basically working on websites, which is second nature and original ideas come quite easily. But when it came to doing my own website my mind went blank! It's as if I had no idea how I wanted to portray myself, I had spent that long working on other peoples designs and ideas (the majority corporate) that i just couldn't decide what my personal style was.

As for content, I knew exactly what I wanted to deliver... a blog website that included a little info about me and some of my work but when it came to design... I was stumped.

Before the final look you see here on the site I had been through about twenty different designs; flash, web 2.0 shiney, sketchy/hand drawn, flat and corporate, photographic... the lot, none of which felt like 'me'. It was as if I was trying too hard to design a site that would please people or that was 'in fashion'. In the end I decided to just fuck it and do what I wanted.

A couple of weeks ago i got some time off from work that I thought would be a perfect time to bash out a design. So I sat down with some paper and a pen, sketched some ideas then hopped onto photoshop and got on with some visuals. After a bit of tweeking, and a lot different fonts, I had something I liked in front of me (though I probably want to change it again in a few months time).

So in the end, why was it so difficult to design for myself? And am I the only person that has had this problem? Answers in a comment :-)