D. Keith Robinson: The Myth of Perfect Web Design

Via “Pseudo Design”:http://www.itnextgen.net/pseudo/, tip number 5 From D. Keith Robinson’s Gorilla Web Tips: “The Myth of Perfect Web Design”:http://www.7nights.com/dkrprod/gwt_five.php

A good post explaining why you should not aim for perfection in web design. Something I need to learn (the name of this weblog wasn’t chosen randomly…)

It’s brought me back to my original goals. Recently my idea of web design has drifted away recently towards aiming for beatiful sites (like “this”:http://mezzoblue.com/, “this”:http://www.stopdesign.com/, “this”:http://exp.hicksdesign.co.uk/ or (_nearly_) any of “these”:http://csszengarden.com/) and forgetting more about the content and usability of my sites. Anyhow, I’ve sat looking at all these sites; then fired up “Fireworks”:http://www.macromedia.com/products/fireworks/ and spent the next couple of hours working on a design. And I _can’t_ do anything like theirs. These guys have talent. (which does annoy me, even though it shouldn’t)

Which leads back to the perfectionism thing. Unless I settle for only doing a good/very good design I’ll never get a site finished. I’ve got to settle for my designs lacking the polish of those linked above, and instead use my strengths to build great sites.

Enough winging and introspection. Time to get back to doing something constructive like programming!

(memo to self: _stop moaning in this blog. Get on and be proactive instead. And remember, you can’t erase an entry from the history of the web once published, so watch what you write. Don’t want it to come back and bite in 20 years time…_)

*Update*
Paul Scrivens “sums up the frustration”:http://www.itnextgen.net/pseudo/archives/our_thoughts/better_days_ahead.php so well in his post, and suggests a solution: _be patient_.