A story about putting a site live

Picture the scene, Im about to make the switch between the holding page and the new homepage on my new site when I suddenly start getting the urge to make changes, not just ordinary changes but large scaled ones involving backgrounds, fonts and colours…WHY? oh WHY? 

I put these urges down to my constant nagging with most sites that I personally work on, did I nail that layout correctly? Did I maximize the colour or even the font useage to the best of my ability..Surely there has to be a point when you say no! I’m done,  time to move onto phase 2 or another project entirely. My site in particular was a labour of love, it took on various incarnations of colour, style and even content delivery type but I guess that’s a designers prerogative to chop and change as much as I did, after all would you be a designer of any grade if you didn’t want to better your own personal design?  That whole question is a different discussion right there and one I might tackle in future posts.

In the end I went with what got me exited the last time I toyed with my design, I knew that essentially I was pretty happy with what I had and I knew that it delivered the key messages that I wanted to push so hard. I’m pretty sure in 6 months the site will be different  but thats what makes design so much fun…well in my book anyhow.

In closing of this article, the only piece of advice I could offer should anyone find themselves in the same position as me.. is run with what you feel is honestly 100% your best or damn nearest. Forget about a site you saw that had a nice Web 2.0 interface or that cool gradient effect you saw 30 minutes earier…you made your design look like it did pre launch for a reason…roll with it! push it live and move on…..

But remember, one of the great things about the web is that it’s so easily editable….
Now about those icons…….