But I Just Want To Make This One Last Change … Don’t Always Try To Reach Perfection

When you are doing a project, whether for your self or a client, there is a disease that might creep in of wanting to make it perfect.

In fact, you have a set of objectives with the website.

Maybe it has to make sales.

Maybe people have to feel comfortable on the website.

Maybe you want them to download something.

Whatever the goal, the idea is not to keep tweaking every little detail until it’s perfect. Hours … and Hours … and Hours … pass by.

And all you’ve got is a website that still does what you want, and it might look just a litle cooler.

Stop the tweaking and instead, focus on the objective.

Early on in my own design career I used to spend countless hours making little changes to the look of the websites I was working on. It would have been time much better spent on doing something else, more constructive.

Of course, if you are working for a client, and the client wants a change made to something, then that’s a change to make.

But there are much better things to do than do another take on that shadow in your banner.

What better things?

Marketing: increasing traffic to your website, and finding people interested in your services and engaging them

Getting some R&R: refresh your creativity by stepping away and spend an hour or two exercising or walking

Browsing other designers’ work: Get a fresh perspective, bask in the colors they choose and see if anything hits you.

About the Author

Tim Norton started designing websites in his free time in 2005 and it soon became a major source of income for his family. He taught himself coding, graphics, and whatever else relates to designing great websites. Get in touch at 6Webdesign.