Do You Drive Yourself Crazy Nitpicking Your Blog Design?

If you’re like me, when you finally settle on a design for your blog, it doesn’t take long before you start rethinking things. And rethinking things.

Before long, you’re reconsidering the entire thing, while you remind yourself that you don’t have the funds available to have some coding whiz create something unique and exclusive to you.

Your blog design is important because it hopefully conveys something about your niche and your personality all at the same time. Your blog design is very much the “first impression”&nbsp your readers receive when they visit your blog.

Since my blog is multi-category, I naturally want a theme that makes it easier to navigate a variety of topics. That’s why the past several designs I’ve adopted featured a notable navigation bar across the top of the page below the logo that spotlights key topics (in this case, categories) that I write about.

My most recent change adds a “megamenu” option. If you haven’t heard of a megamenu, just hover over one of the selections in the primary navbar, like “Blogging”&nbsp or “Life,”&nbsp for example. You’ll see four stills appear showing the four most recent posts in that category. The megamenu option can showcase your content more effectively and (hopefully) increase the number of posts per visit your readers actually read.

The design I had just switched from didn’t have the megamenu option, and claimed there was no way to make the megamenu option work with a mobile design. That, at least, was the blog designer’s claim, despite the fact that there are plenty of blog designs that allow megamenus on the desktop version and still feature a responsive (mobile-friendly) design.

Then there are images. I have an image library that has more than 1,700 pieces in it. The two most-recent designs I’ve selected require bigger images than are in my library. This means I’ve had to be working behind the scenes replacing every image.

If you think this seems like a lot of trouble, you’re absolutely right. I hope the result is worth it, but I think it is.

I swear I’m going to ban myself from sites like ThemeForest and Mojo Themes now that I have this design. It doesn’t offer everything on my wishlist, but then I doubt anything that isn’t a custom job will.

Your Turn:

How long does it take you to start nitpicking your blog design after you implement a new one?