I was curious, whether any of you who own a website or a forum, design everything for their site? Or do you hire someone to do it? For me, I choose to design everything as it's a great part of who I am, plus it's something I enjoy. What about you? Do you find it hard if you do? Or is it more than fun, and you just give it your best shot?

Well, I work as a Freelancer, so yeah, I also design my own sites.

Nobody except the freelances ^^ design whole websites.

I take a simple template and create my own buttons or backgrounds or menus and such.

I design for myself.I took some Paint shop classes that are free and I think I'm getting rather good, why ask someone when I can do it myself,that and nothing gets done right when others do it and some miscommunication goes on

well two out of three. i dont like using pre made templates, but i just ran out of ideas lol.

I do everything myself, which works out much cheaper and is more personal, but often means things don't get done as quick as they possibly should do.

every thing done be myself. im the only one who actually works on my site and it looks cool seeming im only in jr. high

I think I'm too picky to let anyone else design for me.

I usually start my site with nothing in mind, and just play with designing until I create something I like, then I build on it from there. I'm huge on the little details in design, and people DO notice, and it makes the visual experience that much more better for that little bit of extra work.

i have some free Graphics site>>

I realize that I am Not a Jack of all Trades  --  And graphic design is not one of my strong points. I choose to just outsource this work to a graphic design pro so that I can concentrate on other areas I'm better at like content writing and marketing.  If I tried to do everything my head would Explode!!! There's only so much time in a day - and it really comes to a point where you have to know when it's best to handle a task yourself or outsource the work.