My website is nothing amazing. Or even great. Really not even good. In fact, it’s been an embarrassment to me for the last couple years; that is to say, I feel that it is not a good reflection of my work. That being said…
I am so freaking tired of seeing, in letters about 300px tall, the word “Hello” or “Hi”, on the home page of designers’ websites, usually followed by a period (.) and a sentence like “I build websites.” To show an example, I’d have to single someone out, and that wouldn’t be cool, because maybe the person I’d single out wasn’t being a follower, or even worse, thinking that they were being ever so clever.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s not worth your time to figure it out. This just annoys me for some reason. I don’t know why. I copy things that I see all the time if I think they are cool. But I officially declare this uncool. And, while I’m at it, the word (or words – I’m not sure) douche bag is also off the market. It was funny for a while and often quite fitting. But now, too many people use it, and the age of people using it has just gotten out of hand. So goodbye, “douche bag.”
What use is it to rant on about something so stupid as this? None, really. But it gives me something to do while waiting for my wife to put down little Natee – after which we will continue our second run of Lost – since my attempts at creating a personal website design have been so futile. Why is it so hard to design for myself?
I feel your pain I too have a website in fact it uses this same wordpress 2010 theme currently. I started it in an effort to put up help video on basic computer use ie… installing programs using windows and associated programs. Once I had the name of the site and had purchased the url I thought I would kick it in the butt fairly quickly but strangely I was stumped jumping my first hurdle of designing the logo. Designing a logo sounds easy and when you see a good one it is easy to recognize but my attempts to please my self have come up empty. My first big stumbling block was complicated further as I tried to use new software photoshop cs4 and illustrator cs4 of which I love but am only mildly familiar with. Dealing with myself is my biggest problem I have an idea of what I want my logo to be but I am far from being an artist.
Seems like just as soon as I create something, I’m embarrassed by it. There are only a few things that I can truly admit to designing. It might have to do with the fleeting nature of design and what is hip. It’s always a challenge to create timeless design.
Indeed. I went to put together an updated portfolio a couple days ago and was very disappointed to discover that there isn’t really much that I’m truly proud of. I will say that at this point, the closest I’ve found to a hip, fun, and timeless design style is that of Simon Walker. I am blown away and freshly inspired every time I look at his work. Even if you take away the (possibly hip) grunge from it, there still lays a beautiful design beneath it.