Blog First, Design Second
After making another round of tweaks to adrian3.com I thought of one piece of advice for anyone thinking about starting a blog: Don’t wait until you have your templates perfect to start your blog. Building a “perfect” website takes an incredible amount of time. If you wait until you have the perfect templates and every little feature you are wasting valuable blog time. Get your site up and running and worry about perfecting it later. For one thing, this allows you to start building content. It also lets you understand what your content will be and how it is going to work. Once you know that you can build your design accordingly. I would even go as far as to say don’t start customizing your site until you have written for a while. Use one of the default templates to start out with and slowly build and modify it until you have a decent site. Think of designing a blog as a neverending redesign. Never stop thinking of ways to improve your blog’s layout. That is the philosophy I have taken with Be A Design Group. I have constantly tweaked the site and still have a ton of little things I would like to do to improve it. If I waited until my templates were perfect BADG never would have started. So what are you waiting for? Start your blog today.
