# Designers block...sort of

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block-sort-of/139039>\
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**Created:** [February 27, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block-sort-of/139039 "2005-02-27T22:41:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![H4T](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/h4t/32/329_2.png) [@H4T](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/H4T)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/designers-block-sort-of/139039/1 "2005-02-27T22:41:24Z")

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The truth is, I’m not a designer, nor an artist at all. For a couple years I made some websites I liked, but for the past year or so, I haven’t been able to develop anything I like, and in the last few months, I can’t get past 20 minutes of work in Photoshop without getting frustrated.

I’m a coder, and I need a website to put out my code experiments and serve as a hub for information about me and stuff…but I can’t make the site! If I had a design, I could code it completely, but I can’t make a design. When I look at sites for inspiration, I end up just copying them. Help!

What kind of advice can you give for a programmer who wants to make a site, but can’t for the life of him make one that looks good? I don’t want to fall back on templates or other people, but I may have to. Does a good looking design matter to you, or can you look through a simplistic design to see the content? I could make a site that simple and to the point, wouldn’t be confusing and such, but I probably can’t make it look very pretty.