About a year ago I began the strange four months that I now refer to as bed rest. At first the doc just said “take it easy, rest as much as you can,” and seeing as I’m a writer who pretty much does very little in the course of day anyhow, I didn’t worry. Yes, I tossed in a nap mid-day, and stopped exercising, but that was about it.
But by the end of August, I was in bed full time, trying to keep the contractions at bay. The first few days of bed rest I actually kind of enjoyed it. I caught up some projects, watched a few movies. Not bad. For a few days. Three months later I was desperate to leave that room, but that’s a story for another time. Allow me to bring it back to the present. The reason I’m thinking about last August is because one of the projects I did was to revamp my website.
I had my reasons for choosing Weebly, but mostly it came down to design. I liked that not everyone had this same layout. But since then I’ve come across other sites that look just like mine – boo. At the same time I’ve become cozy with WordPres, I actually much prefer their interface. So now I want to redo my website – again. It’s becoming an annual thing.
I don’t have time for it to be an annual thing.
So I’m thinking of turning to a professional. I’m going to bite the bullet and pay someone to design a site that is uniquely my own, and to get it up and running on WordPress. My hope, in investing a small(ish) amount of cash, is that this will be a site I can use for years to come. Is three years of functionality too much to ask in this day and age? I’d settle for two.
The way I figure it, $450 spent now will (I hope) save me weeks of trying to revamp a site I will be sick of almost immediately – a week that I could use to write something that gets me paid. When I put it that way it seems absolutely worth the money. Fingers crossed.
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