-No kidding. Building my own site took forever and a day. Perhaps it’s because I had a grand idea in my head - and getting that into something real and coherent was such a bigger task. Plus - as a designer - so also the perfectionist. Nothing was good enough until I finally just sat down and hammered something out.

I did however work out a decent design process:
1 - make list of words that convey the site purpose, audience, feeling, etc.
2 - create thumbnails - not much larger than matchbook - of possible layouts
3 - collect inspiration from things on the web that I like
4 - basic photoshop and html layout
5 - move on to advanced design and development

That seemed to work, but it still wasn’t easy…