When I built my first ever website, I didn’t design it. I knew what I wanted the main colours to be, and through trial and error with CSS eventually came up with something I quite liked. It was hideous, of course, but I wasn’t to know.

A lot of your design ability will come through practise and research, knowing what is “in” and knowing what will always look good. However, if you’re just starting out and don’t quite have a hold on the nuances, here are a few things to consider.
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Oh my, that’s much harder than I expected.

At the moment this blog is all alone in the world, cast out into the cold with no surrounding site to comfort it on these long winter nights. This was never my intention, I was determined to launch my entire site at once and wow the entire internet with my ingenuity. Yeah, right.

So far the site has worked it’s way through 3 complete redesigns. One of them almost made it live but I pulled the plug at the last minute due to an inconveniently timed flash of inspiration. (more…)