Forever Under Construction

Admit it you have been making a website, got bored, thought "sod it, I´ll come back to it" and thrown an image of a roadworks roadsign or a construction barrier. Why? Is it because that coding HTML is as backbreaking as manual labour, or you feel the need to throw something up before it was ready, and think "at least it´s getting spidered". That´s very true, but the icon to the right is got as much to do with website design as Paris Hilton has with NASA. It´s just the look screams to potential readers "We design websites like it´s 1996". Or maybe, more likely, is that nothing online is ever finished. Take my blog (yes, I had to get a plug in somewhere), recently I launched a new site design which, despite achieving wasn´t quite there. It took a comment from a brave girl (she was brave, she criticized) called Celeste to put the finger on what was troubling me. It was too busy. Yes! That was it! Fantastic. I spent a few hours therefore this evening going through the template,...