Erik’s Blog: Board Shorts and Business Suits

Blog design is tough. Coding, for myself, is way easier than sitting down in front of Fireworks or Photoshop and trying to layout a blog template, or a forum template. Colorschemes, logo design, font choice. Why is it so hard? Am I less of an internet entrepreneur if I can’t design a blog template and get the coloring right?

I have been asking myself this over the past day as I my weeks long laboring over my blog network main site has been getting nowhere, should I desing these sites, graphically that is, or should I hire someone else?. I’ve never sat down to design a graphically elegant design. Or maybe I should say I’ve never succeeded. For those of you who’ve been to my blogs within the network, you’ll notice that they all have the same layout with a 3 color pattern and slight changes here and there. Nothing big.

Now that I’ve got a name and a decent size network in place, I want to get a design that sets itself apart from all the other blogs. I am sure, or at least I feel, I could sit here and labor over designing a site for a while and maybe, just maybe I could strike something that I like, something that makes me say, sweet! Now that’s a design. But how long would that take, and would my time be better spent coding and producing content, something that I feel I’m much better at.

I gots to thinking, what would a true entrepreneur do, or a business leader do? He or she would realize their shortcomings and hire someone to do the job that they were meant to do. It’s more efficient, and it will save money. If I spend 60 hours coming up with a design that looks half as good as some creative type can come up with in 5 hours, maybe less, wouldn’t spending 60 hours producing content for the network be a better use of my time.

Silly that I even had to think about that one.

More to come…