Version 21 - Coming sooner then you think

I’m obsessed, and I realize this. What happens is I will create a brand new layout, I’ll like it for about a day and then I’ll start moving things around, adding pages, deleting them, adding buttons, moving them…Then I’ll get bored, or I’ll stop liking that particular design and what it has become and I’ll tear it down and do it all over again.

This time I’ll want to do it a little differently, and let me tell you why. A good friend of mine, Courtney who is the author of Travelingthoughts.com and I have made an agreement, or more like… a bet. The bet is that we both launch new versions of our websites, and we can’t make any major changes outside the graphical header for three months. That means no moving things around, no rewording my Colophon / About / Biography (or whatever I feel like I want to call it that week) page… No new pages, no pages being taken down or reworked. I can’t even change the colors of the site for three months.

The bet was originally going to be for 3 ½ weeks, but I shot myself in the foot, and made it the three months. However I’m glad I did, I have created a new challenge for myself. The challenge is not to create my vision of the ultimate website by changing things around constantly, but to create a new layout I’m happy with and stick with it and not get obsessed with improving it. If I lose, I have to do a paid advert post through PayPerPost and donate the earnings to charity, I would also lose any bragging rights for beating another blogger. I can’t let that happen. But can I constrain myself for that long? I’ve only had a couple layouts that have lasted me more then a couple months and even those I often heavily changed over time.

The real question is, can I plan and develop a layout that I’m happy enough with by Monday at midnight?