Designing a New Blog Around Constraints

I have found that while starting a blog for the first time can be difficult in itself, an even bigger challenge is starting a second (or a third, a fourth) blog. Each involves adding more time and devotion in your daily schedule, and doing this is time consuming, with relatively little reward until you have grown the sites. Obviously, this is what prevents many from even getting started with their second site (and beyond).

There are a number of constraints that people must work around. Having a background of starting up new sites/blogs, as well as working with others and building your network online can certainly help, but I’ll assume you have at least some background in designing new sites and operating online.

1. First of all, if you have no capital or money to start up your new site, you’ll have to start simple, using free services until you are able to work up to more professional hosting and services. I generally don’t advise people to start this way, but it can help if you are starting your first site, at least to get a background on running a blog.
2. Tied into how much cash you initially put into your site, you must think about how you want your new site to look. Professional, custom website design doesn’t usually come cheap. You can either use a free site design and customize it to get around this drawback, but you’ll need to spend time and effort learning about site design. On the other hand, there are premium themes that can dramatically reduce the cost of a “custom” design by giving you some easy control of your site.
3. Reader criticism can also be one of the major roadblocks in your pursuit of building a great site. There are people, whether they own their own site or not, who will leave negative criticisms about your posts, whether or not they even read the content. In many cases, they can’t even back up their ideas with facts, instead resorting a few key attack words. You have to forget about this, only taking criticism with a grain of salt.
4. As previously mentioned, time is one of the biggest drawbacks over creating a new site/blog. It may only take a few minutes to install and setup your site using automated tools, while it’ll take a few hours initially to get all the pages setup on your site, services added and connected to your site, and after that, some more time before you are finally able to get started posting. Not everyone will have all this free time available, especially those who work full-time apart from their Internet ventures. You can set goals for yourself, aiming to work an hour or so each day until you have each step accomplished.

In closing, you have to understand problems you’ll encounter as you grow a website, then develop a clear strategy for moving on. Sometimes the solution won’t be as clear as you want it to be, but there are still ways to move on without having to give up entirely. Alternatively, you don’t want to be left throwing resources at the dart board and hoping the problems work themselves out.

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